The vast majority of issues on which students were asked to vote were simply “cleaning up policy” — minor changes which received nearly unanimous support
Michael L. Davenport
staff reporter

Never before had the Federation of
Students seen so much discussion over
a single vowel.
The Federation of Students held its
annual general meeting in the Great Hall
on Monday, October 30. Like previous
general meetings, most changes to Feds
policy were a matter of fixing grammar

or subtly modifying wording; those
passed without discussion or contention.
However, there’s always that one hot
button issue which gets debated, picked
apart, and ultimately garners a charged
vote. Whereas that issue last year was
the creation of a referendum committee
(which ultimately failed 9-13-4), this year
the hot issue was centred around a letter: changing the name of the Womyn’s
Centre to the “Women’s Centre.”

The word “women” comes from
the old English “wifman” (or “wyfman”) which meant “weaver human,”
“man” itself was a gender neutral term
at that time; adult males were referred
to as “werman” (or wæpman), meaning “person with a weapon.” However,
sometime between old and middle
English the “wer” was dropped from
“werman,” making the male gender
default (according to various experts

and the Oxford English Dictionary.)
The feminist movement of the 1970s
took offense to the male gender being
the presumed default and femininity
being relegated to a prefix. Arts councillor Caitlin Cull told Imprint, “The issue
really relates to a very important and
interesting aspect of feminist thought
and perspective, and that is the power
and politics of language. Because we accept language as neutral and unbiased,

we fail to acknowledge the history and
the sexism that are laden within the very
words that we use.”
The Women’s Centre was founded
in 1981 without the alternate spelling
— though at some point between then
and now, the spelling changed to “The
Womyn’s Centre” without an official
vote by the student population.
See AGM, page 5

A self-proclaimed witch from Munich has
been ordered by the Munich administrative court to pay one of her clients the
equivalent of $1,400 CAD for the failure
of a love spell.
The client, who has remained unidentified,
approached the witch in 2003 after her boyfriend
left her. The two engaged in a conversation which
ended with the client going home carrying a love
spell prescription to win back her partner.
For the next several months the client preformed numerous corresponding tasks required
by the love spell. The rituals, which took place
under the light of full moons, were carried out
without success.
According to The Canadian Press, in her defense, the witch claimed that the client knew
she was taking a risk because there was no guarantee to whether or not the spell would work.
However, the court deemed her defence to be
irrelevant because “a love ritual is not suited to
influencing a person from a distance.”
No information on the reason for the breakup was released. It is uncertain which witch was
the real witch.
U.S.

The Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance
(OUSA) met on October 29 at Wilfrid Laurier’s
Senate and Board Chambers to discuss the future policy iniatives of the organization. Since
its inception in 1992, OUSA now represents
over 125,000 undergraduate and professional,
full-time and part-time students. Kate Daley, a
delegate on the OUSA’s board of representatives
as well as a Federation of Students councillor,
describes the organization’s primary mandate as
“creating policies on issues related to post-secondary education for the purposes of lobbying
government for positive changes.”
As an unforgiving blizzard hailed beyond the
Chambers’ glass walls, an equally intense debate
raged between OUSA delegates at the bi-annual general assembly. Major points discussed
included how the organization plans to lobby
the provincial government on issues of student
financial aid and access for underrepresented
and disadvantaged groups. Feds councillors and
executives, in tandem with delegates from Brock,

Laurier, McMaster, Queen’s, Western and Windsor debated on lobbying strategies and effective
methods of influencing provincial policy.
In terms of OUSA’s lobbying history and
track record, the organization’s successes are
not few. Federation of Students vice-president
of education Jeff Henry noted “in the past, we
lobbied the Liberal party while in opposition to
include a review of the [education] system and a
tuition freeze which ultimately did happen.” Once
OUSA had successfully earned the co-operation
of the provincial government in this endeavour,
they continued to act as ongoing advisors in the
process. “Once the review was announced […]
we produced a large paper on what a review of
higher education should look like, how it should
be structured, the questions it should be asking
and that’s almost exactly what happened.”
Undergraduates are often unaware of the
flaws in the post-secondary education system
that leaves students in unfavourable situations.
“We have a new campaign coming up which
is going to talk about some of the issues that
undergraduates face but do not necessarily
think about or take for granted,” said Waterloo’s

OUSA campus co-ordinator and Feds councillor Caitlin Cull. OUSA’s website urges students
who are indifferent to the status quo to consider the facts in terms of dollars and cents:
“Ontario stands dead last when compared to
all provinces in per student funding, at $6,018
in 2001/02, as compared to the national average of $8,279.” The organization argues that
the situation has improved little over the years
and there remains a plethora of concerns yet
to be addressed.
Though undergraduates do represent a
rather large demographic and indeed wield a
sizable potential political sway, the problem
lies in their participation rates. Daley speaks
to the need for greater student involvement in
organizations such as OUSA, “getting students
interested and involved in the political process
particularly at the voting level is important to
our lobbying activities.” Daley argues that indifference to the educational system or disinterest
in the political process makes it “more difficult
to accomplish the priorities that we set out
which are about improving access, affordability
and equality.”

Former Governor General speaks from the Heart
Neal Moogk-Soulis
staff reporter

I’m wrapping up my interview with Adrienne
Clarkson and she’s put me on the spot. When
she asks if I’ll be attending her talk, I tell her
that I’ll be taking dance lessons instead. “That’s
fabulous!” she exclaims. “People wonder what
is going to be attractive to women. I can tell
you: someone who can actually dance.”
Interviewing Adrienne Clarkson is a tough
job. She is after all, a veteran journalist and
broadcaster who has travelled around the world.
She was also Governor General from 1999

through 2005. She recently published Heart
Matters, a memoir of her life from war-torn
Hong Kong to Rideau Hall. She’ll be reading
excerpts from it Thursday, November 9 at 7:00
p.m. in the Humanities Theatre.
In the course of a gruelling book tour, she
has done more than 100 interviews in the past
six weeks. “I always believed that the good interviewer always followed the track of what was
being said. They can’t have a list of eight prepared
questions and say ‘oh that’s very interesting, but
now I want to ask you about something else.’
When I’m being interviewed myself, I can tell the
people who have it and who can really do it.”

Luckily for me, this warning came midway
through our conversation —otherwise, I might
have given up. As it was, she suggested at the
outset that I be more assertive as I spoke too
softly.
We started talking about Waterloo. “I’m
really looking forward to coming to Waterloo;
it’s such an exciting university.” Clarkson knew
Doug Wright when he was UW’s president
from 1981 to 1993. “I don’t know why I’ve
never visited the campus, but I’m looking
forward to it.”
See CLARKSON, page 4

After stealing a public transit bus, and being
charged with grand theft auto and driving
unlicensed, a Florida teenager is now awaiting
his trial.
Ritchie Calvin Davis, 15, recently snuck
onto a bus that was parked at the Central
Florida Fairgrounds in Orlando and drove
away. The bus, which was waiting to be
auctioned off when Davis took it, was driven
at normal speed along a bus route, picking
up customers.
According to Florida deputies, Davis drove
along the route making all the regular stops,
collecting money as customers boarded.
Even though there were only two customers
on the bus when police arrested him, it was
estimated that Davis picked up at least three
passengers.
According to The Canadian Press, his court
trial will determine whether or not he will be
charged as an adult. Davis, who has previously
been charged for similar bus thefts claims that
he drove the bus better than most public transit
drivers.
The bus was returned undamaged. The same
could not be said about the Florida’s transit
drivers’ pride.
dnguyen@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Maclean’s rankings
hit stands
UW has been named Canada’s Most
Innovative University in Maclean’s
Annual Rankings Issue, released November 2. We placed second in the Best
Overall category, behind the University
of Alberta. Maclean’s Magazine ranks
47 Canadian schools in this controversial issue.
Watch for full analysis next week in
Imprint.

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What was the worst professor you ever
had? These words usually bring a twitch
of an eye to the common student.
Thankfully, the teaching resource office
(TRACE) is working on improving the
quality of university teachers through
the Certificate in University Teaching
(CUT) program.
TRACE organizes a program
of educational development events
for the UW community each term,
including interactive workshops and
presentations on a range of teaching
and learning issues. This teaching
improvement will be implemented
through Focus on Teaching events,
formerly known as “spa days.” These
events are collaborative, facilitated
sessions designed specifically for each
department. Events range from a
couple of hours to a full day and
focus on issues that impact teaching
in every discipline.
The intended outcome of the
CUT program is for participants to
be self-aware, critically-reflective teachers who have gained both theoretical
knowledge and skills that assist in the
attainment of, and early success in, an
academic career. The CUT courses
work together to provide a comprehensive teacher-development experience.
The program is designed primarily for
doctoral students.
TRACE consultants work with
you every step of the way both to
challenge and support you. They strive
to help you continue to improve as a
teacher and increase your confidence
as you progress through the program.
TRACE is committed to your success
and to providing various learning op-

portunities that will allow you to build
theoretical knowledge and skills to use
in your future academic career.
While the program is only a year
old, consistent success brought the
program back for its second year on a
more stable basis. In fact, the TRACE’s
September Teaching Matters bulletin said
that, “CUT has been a runaway success
in terms of satisfaction and enrolment,
so much that it became clear over the
past year that we need to address the
issue that our resources are finite and
we cannot meet the climbing demand.”
The program’s popularity is due to the
program’s benefit to both students and
teachers — since both are a part of the
educational system.While the program
is aimed at teachers, it’s collateral focus
is the students. “Our most important
indirect client is the student. Everything
is aimed to help them,” says Donna Ellis, assistant director of TRACE.
TRACE director, Catherine
Schryer and Ellis both agree, “good
teaching always affects students.”
They believe the CUT program will
help the students because “the more
we get instructors to share their teaching practices, the better it is for the
students. Faculties often don’t have
the time and this event provides the
space and time to share their effective
teaching practices. CUT aims to take a
personal approach to faculty improvement by providing the teachers with
a chance to get together with us to
discuss the issues that are important
to them,” said Schryer. Because CUT
believes each discipline has customized
teaching needs, separate representatives
have been raised cross faculty to meet
the diverse demand. CUT has been
implemented in a variety of faculties,
some of which being physics, school of

Anya Lomako

TRACE director, Catherine Shryer (right) and associate director,
Donna Ellis .
optometry, the school of accountancy,
mechanical and mechatronics engineering, recreation and leisure studies
and St. Jerome’s university, despite the
program’s young age.
Veronica Austen, a University of
Waterloo English doctoral degree student and CUT prize winner considers
the program a personal fruition. She
says, “completing CUT taught me to
always be a self-aware teacher, willing to

try new teaching strategies, and continually work to ensure my students have
effective learning experiences.”
If you have questions about general
program requirements or other CUT
program-related inquiries, please contact director of TRACE, Dr. Catherine
Schryer at ext. 32132 or via email
trace@uwaterloo.ca.
alomako@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Clarkson: reveals the heart behind a prominent Canadian figure
Continued from page 3

I asked if this book was written because she had some free time now that
she was no longer Governor General
and because she had been Governor
General.
“It’s mostly not about being Governor General. I wanted to write this,
especially the story of my family. The
main story is of a human being who
gets certain influences from people that
she loves and who love her and who
becomes the kind of person who is a
public figure and that people only know
as a public figure. It’s not the whole story
by any means, but I’m not interested in
telling the whole story.”
It’s evident that her family had a
profound effect on her life by reading the book. Even so, she didn’t feel
that she could write about them while
they were still living. “I was going to
interpret them and their relationship
to me and mine to them through my
eyes and of course they’d say, ‘Well it
wasn’t exactly like that’ or ‘We didn’t
do that for that reason.’”
“All I can do is assess character
— what they were like to me as parents.
You come to a point where you understand your parents as adults and they
are adults to you, not just the people
who hold the power of everything
over you.”
Unlike her parents, who each came
from a family of eight, Clarkson only
had one brother, Neville. Her brother
went on to become a doctor. “He
was very fixed on that one goal which
he achieved and did very, very well,
whereas I was all over the place and did
all sorts of things that I thought were
interesting.” Sound familiar?
If WWII hadn’t happened, her life

might have been different. She once
asked her father what might have
happened. “He said, ‘Well, I think you
were bright. My business would have
continued and been successful and we
would have sent you to the States and
then you could have come home and
you would have married a rich man.’
And I said, ‘Thank goodness there
was a war!’”
If the war was the first major turning
point in her life, the second major turning point in her career occurred in high
school. At Lisgar Collegiate in Ottawa,
she had Mr. Mann for English. She had
considered taking mathematics at university: “I always loved mathematics.”
He introduced her to the world
of literature and opened the whole
world of history and philosophy that
accompanied it. He also encouraged
her to enter public speaking contests
that introduced to working in front of
an audience. Finally he had gone to the
University of Toronto’s Trinity College
which influenced her final choice for
university. “I think he was quite happy
to steer me in that direction. Going to
Trinity really changed my life.”
Clarkson found that she really didn’t
know what she wanted and didn’t care
that she didn’t know. “I lived for learning
things from the moment and I stretched
out everything.”
She wasn’t going to university to
be trained, but instead to go to get an
education. I asked her what she thought
about the current trend of preparing
students at a very early age for a specific
career. “I think it’s awful; that’s not
education, that’s training, and there’s a
difference. If you want an education,
you go in order for your mind to be
totally expanded in all directions in
whatever disciplines you want. But to

be trained for a job, it’s training, not an
education. The opening of the mind is
what’s really, really important.”
A broad education is important in
her mind. “The thing that education
does for you is it gives you the latitude
of mind and spirit to be able to understand things.”
Clarkson took her open-minded
and ever curious enthusiasm from her
time at Trinity and transferred it to the
CBC. The early years at CBC TV were
a dynamic, much younger place than
they might be today. “Everyone was
under thirty-five except for the big,
big supervisor, and he was forty-two.
It may seem odd now, but it a way, it
was great.”
The relative youth meant that in a
new medium, TV, production crews
were inventive and creative both as a
necessity and as part of their character.
Clarkson and her colleagues were just
ahead of the baby boom. “Part of it was
demographic. The thing is that people
like Barbara Frum, Peter Gzowski and
I were born in the late thirties and there
weren’t many people born in Canada
for the next six years. [Our age at the
time] made us seem unusual.”
I asked her about journalism, and
the role that curiosity and intuition
play in shaping a good writer. “I don’t
think you can teach people everything.
Curiosity is the one thing that will
carry me personally through life. I’m
curious about everything. Some of the
excitement comes from not knowing
what the answer is to the questions that
you’re asking.”
While Clarkson may have started
her personal and professional lives
early, she was first married at age 25,
things have changed since then. “To
me, 30 is the new 20. People are now

doing things when they’re 32 that we
were doing when we were 22 because
we had time on our backs.”
Memoirs skim and dip from a
writer’s memory rather than providing
a detailed chronological life story. “I
left out an enormous amount of stuff;
whole swaths of stuff. I didn’t want the
book to be long. There were things
that I felt I could excise without doing
damage to the main story.”
Even with this being the case,
reviewers have tended to focus on her
tenure as Governor General, which
she finds annoying. Throughout the
interview, she was always quick to point
out that the book was not all about
being Governor General. I asked her
if that was the case, why did reviewers
focus on it? “I think they focused on
it because they wanted to and because
they didn’t know how to write it any
other way.”
“I revealed what I wished to reveal
of my true self. As I said earlier in the
interview, I tried to do it without interfering with other people’s thoughts.”
Despite her whirlwind tour, Clarkson will be ready for her appearance
at UW. “I’m going to be reasonably
quiet for the next week until I release
myself on you.”
As for dancing, Clarkson’s parents
were good dancers and she danced
often at university. Since then however,
there has been little time for dancing.
“John Ralston Saul and I have been
promising each other to go for dancing lessons together for about 20 years,
so I’m still hoping that this is going to
happen within the next year. We had
thought that we would have time to do
it when we got to Rideau Hall. Ha!”
nmoogksoulis@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

The University of Waterloo is, once again,
expanding its educational opportunities for
its more technologically inclined students, as
it will be joining forces with China’s Tsinghua University to create a computer science
exchange program. The university is situated
on former royal gardens of the Qing Dynasty
and surrounded by the historical sites of
Northwest Beijing.
UW’s David R. Cheriton School of
Computer Science, along with Tsinghua
University’s Department of Computer
Science and Technology, recently signed a
memorandum of understanding for academic
co-operation that specifies details for the
upcoming exchanges. Students will spend
the first three years of their studies at their
home universities, then transfer across the
globe to complete years four and five – plus
any additional years that might accompany
a PhD program.
Yet, says George Labahn, acting director
of David R. Cheriton School of Computer
Science, “Students will be paying their home
school. A student going to China will pay UW,
while a Chinese student coming here will pay
their university.” At the end of the exchange,
students enrolled at UW will receive a UW
degree; the students are basically crossing
borders to take the same courses.
However, the cultural benefits of exchanges like this are innumerable. Thomas
Coleman, UW’s dean of mathematics, states
that “this agreement allows [UW] to reach out
to the best students and researchers in China,

and gives the Waterloo students a chance to
explore a new world.” By offering the option
to finish their studies at Tsinghua University,
UW is hoping to inspire a greater sense of
social awareness amongst its students, in addition to the obvious academic rewards they
will be reaping.
These benefits are still largely geared towards students in the faculties of math and
science and unfortunately arts attendees are
still quite often left out of consideration. To
this, Labahn remarked, “It can be beneficial
[for arts students to take part in overseas
exchanges] but we must keep in mind that
there’s also a language barrier. Computer science sStudents are not as required to know
the language while the arts students would
have to know Chinese.”
So for now, UW will have to settle for
attracting China’s top technology students:
Tsinghua is consistently selected as the university of choice by 70 per cent of the top 10
scorers from each province on the national
university entrance exam. As well, 70 per
cent of the students who ranked number
one in the same ridings also chose Tsinghua
as their favoured option for post-secondary
studies.
The exchange opportunity will be given to
roughly five students from UW each year. The
number of students entering the UW campus
will have to be monitored as well, due to the
greater amount of enthusiasm from Tsinghua students to study in Canada. However,
the number of participants admitted in the
program remains unknown.
ramcneil@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Taking time off to be counted

filed in front of the Kitchener city council to
voice their opinions. To their credit, the councillors were very patient. The only time that they
got upset was when they were misrepresented,
either deliberately or otherwise, and then they
would ask the clerk to clarify their actions at
earlier meetings.
As it turned out, the bingo issue was not
even on the agenda for the October 29 meeting, but the influx of delegates meant that
The term can be broken into three parts: “I’ve council had to address the issue. As Mayor
got time ‘til this is due,” “I’ve still got time” Carl Zehr noted, council could not approve
and “Everything’s due!” These periods roughly the zone change that night for procedural
correspond to three months of class. I won’t reasons, but that they could vote to kill it.
even mention the fourth month which is “Don’t In the end, Council voted to defer deciding
talk to me, I’m studying.” Why then, if things anything on the issue until their next council
are so crazy, would I spend three hours in a city meeting, November 27.
So, what was the point of attending what
council meeting?
In my spare time from university, I’m the might have otherwise been a futile meeting?
treasurer for the local sailing club. The sailing After all, I was but one person, even though I
club gets some of its capital revenue by oper- represented a larger organization that had a peating a bingo hall with 26 other charities and ripheral part to play. Others who spoke had far
greater interests in the
service clubs in K-W.
issue than I did. What
This fall, the bingo hall
Backsides sitting in the I was doing was playing
management proposed
my part in municipal
relocating the bingo
audience chamber send politics. Backsides sithall from its downtown
ting in the audience
Kitchener site to a more
strong messages to
chamber send strong
accessible site in the
Rosemount neighbour- councillors that the issue messages to councillors
that the issue at hand is
hood. All seemed to be
at hand is important.
important.
fine until the neighbours
Allowing delegafound out.
tions at council meetBecause a bingo hall
needs a special permit to operate, it generally ings is a way of diffusing otherwise concan’t rent regular retail space unless the landlord tentious situations. Aggrieved parties, no
receives permission for a zone change. Checks matter how right or wrong they are, have
and balances exist to make sure that nobody is the satisfaction of knowing that their voices
have been heard. In a way, it allows them to
surprised when the change is permitted.
Word filtered out first to the neighbours let off steam and get all of the issues out
in the affected neighbourhood. When it on the table.
As for me, November 27 is a particularly
became clear that the move would not be
friendly, word filtered out to the supporters awkward time, what with it being the final
week of the term and all. And then we have the
of the move.
Due to another commitment, I arrived late sweet, sweet time for sleep (after the exams are
to the council chambers around 7:30 p.m., in all written, of course). Maybe I can do some
time to hear the city staff finish making their studying while I sit in the gallery.
reports regarding the issue. For the next hour
nmoogksoulis@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
and a quarter, a host of delegations for both sides

AGM: Women’s centre name change
not the sole outcome of meeting
Continued from cover

However, some women find the “womyn”
spelling off-putting. Former undergrad Erin
M. O’Leary spoke out in favour of the change.
She told Imprint, “I just chose not to utilize the
service because the ‘y’ sent a fairly clear message to me that the purpose of the service was
a political agenda and not an informative one
— that could be because the service didn’t put
out enough information to inform me of what
its purpose was.”
When the question was called, the motion
to change “Womyn” to “Women” passed
38-17-4.
It was hoped that changing the name will
change how students view the service. It is
one of the few, if not the only, recommended
change to come out of the controversial service
review to be implemented. However, one of
the current coordinators, Rose Schmidt, thinks
this effort is misdirected. “I believe that the
time and money spent changing the name is
time and money that could have been put into
actually changing the perception of the centre,
educating the university on women’s issues
and accomplishing our mandate,” she wrote
to Imprint. “I still believe that simply changing the name will not dramatically change the
volunteers or users of the centre.”
The name change wasn’t the only measure
that was debated before it was ultimately passed.
Feds’ bylaws, policies and procedures committee also proposed an amendment which would
force all Feds councilors to attend all general
meetings, including the annual general meeting
every October and the other general meeting
generally held every March. As BPP Chair
Kevin Redmond told Imprint, “When faced
with the challenge to make it easier to achieve

quorum at our general meetings, this was an
option the [Feds BPP committee] considered.
Students’ Council is a large body of people that
can mandate certain responsibilities within the
corporation. They are generally very knowledgeable about its current issues. They can make
informed votes at meetings and they can be there
to inform others present about the arguments
for and against a particular issue.”
The kerfuffle was over-wording: though
councilors would be required to attend every
general meeting, there is currently no explicit
requirement mandating the same of the Feds
executive. Engineering Councilor Jeffery Aho
proposed an amendment which would mandate
this, but it was ultimately struck down by Feds
vice-president education Jeff Henry on a point
of order (changes to exec duties were not allowed to be made at that time). The original
measure passed with few people opposing.
Another change warrants mention — the
Feds AGM saw elimination of two of their
other services, the Legal Resource Office
and the Wellness Centre. Though in reality
the services have been defunct since March
of this year due to lack of volunteer interest
or student use, a vote at a general meeting
was required for the services to be officially
discontinued.
Feds President Michelle Zakrison told Imprint
that the mandate of the Wellness Centre was
being effectivly duplicated by Health Services,
and the Pre-Law Club has taken on the duties
of the Legal Resource Office. Zakrison also
encouraged students having legal problems (i.e.
student-landlord disputes) to speak to herself
or VP Education Jeff Henry if they want assistance.
mdavenport@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Coffee time in my hovel
This week has been one to mark off on my
calendar. I was struck by a strangely drugresistant version of the flu. Having suffered
through a good whack of childhood illness,
my immune system is like that of Atlas. But
this bug got through and knocked me flat
on my ass.
I also had to face the fire of public scrutiny.
After an incident of social activism, I knew
something was awry. So with a head full of
anti-histamines, I trekked to the offices that
I knew had a problem with Imprint.
Bear with me here — this isn’t some heroic
story. It’s a metaphor, or an analogy, or some
other literary device... Regardless, among all
the tangible concerns, one primary issue struck
me in the heart: monolithicity. I know, it’s not
a word. But as an interesting aside — accord-

ing to the Oxford English Dictionary website,
one can suggest words. Intrepid readers, go
forth and spread monolithicity.
Although it may end up in the dictionary,
I would like to hunt down every instance of
it being used to describe Imprint. We are by
no means a monolith. But I can understand
how the presentation may make it seem that
way.
The hallway leading to the office is long and
dark. There are usually people busily rushing
to hit deadlines. Sometimes someone is asleep
on the couch. And it smells like newspaper.
But unlike major media corporations, I do
not have a secretary. Hell, I don’t even have
an office per se — more of a hovel. And that
hovel is soon being moved to the heart of the
production room so that I can be near the staff
and help them whenever they need it.
I live in a small townhouse with a couple
of roommates and dogs. I make a reasonable
income and work a second job in a kitchen
at The Chill Bar & Grill. Not the one in the
University Plaza — the ‘cool’ one on the
outskirts of Waterloo.
Things are pretty free and easy here at
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Organic food is a fabrication
Imprint reader questions the nutritious value of eating organic foods
such inedible. Nowadays, to be called “organic,”
crops have to have been grown by certain standards set by the Soil Association.
The origin of these standards for growing
rests with Rudolph Steiner, who had some

I recently read Trish Garland’s article about
organic food in Imprint, which seems to take
for granted that organic is good, and I have to
speak out against this. The truth is that studies
have shown that there’s no noticeable advantage
to organic foods in their taste, health benefits
or even environmental benefits.
Trish glossed over most of the early history
of organic foods, so let me fill in the gaps. First
of all, the origin of the term “organic” came
from chemistry, where it referred to a type of
molecule. The most common definition here is
that organic molecules contain carbon and usually hydrogen. The “organic” food movement
has since picked up this term, presumably to
imply that the alternative was inorganic, and as

The truth is that studies
have shown that there’s
no noticeable advantage
to organic food in their
taste...
supernatural beliefs about the nature of soil.
These beliefs influenced the group of Britons
who founded the Soil Association.
The association thought that the current industrial agriculture was harmful in
various ways, environmentally, bodily, and
spiritually. Part of their original beliefs were

indeed the use of animal manures plus locally-grown materials and animal feeds. But
part of it was more mystical, such as planting
at certain phases of the moon. Fortunately,
most of the mystical beliefs have since been
phased out.
So now we come to the question of
whether or not their methods actually do
anything. For this, the Dick Tavern book The
March of Unreason devotes a chapter to organic
food and whether it really helps. He points
out that in double-blinded tests, consumers
can’t taste the difference between organic
and inorganic produce. Additionally, the
rules for which pesticides can be used seem
to be counter-intuitive; some older and more
harmful pesticides are allowed while newer
and safer ones aren’t. The final problem
with organic farming is that it takes up more
land for a lower yield of crops. In addition
to the economic hardships this would cause
to overpopulated areas, it also encourages
deforestation to increase farmable land.
See PESTICIDE, page 8

opinion

FRIDAY, november 3, 2006

Barflies

Ian Blechschmidt

Man in a box
draws crowd

Though this time it’s not David Blaine

Neither rain, nor sleet, nor
hail, nor gay-bashing
are, to be certain, rather blatantly discriminatory, they were still approved
for distribution by Canada Post. They
decided that it was not in breach of
their mailing standards, which are
similar to those of Canada Customs
in blocking obscene material. The
concept of “hate mail” is not one that
is governed by Canada Post, and, as
such, the pamphlet was approved for
distribution — just not by those who
were to actually deliver it.
This has, of course, brought up
a debate over whether letter carriers
should be required to deliver mail which
they find contrary to their beliefs or
morals. While obscene material will be

servants, and as such should be governed equally as all other civil servants
within Canada. Were we to simply allow
one group of civil servants to refuse
to do the job for which they are paid
because certain tasks offend their belief
system, we would need to allow the
same for all other civil servants. For
example, we would have to allow civil
As the saying goes, there are but two
servants to refuse to perform same-sex
things that are certain in life: death and
marriage ceremonies because they betaxes. I imagine that Canada Post would
lieve in “traditional marriage” or allow
love to add “delivery of your mail” to that
pharmacists to refuse to administer
list, but it seems destined not to be.
contraceptives due to religious beliefs
According to The Canadian Press, late
that tell them that the use of such drugs
last week there was an uprising in Vanis forbidden.
couver over the delivery of a series of
I really, really hate using the cliché
pamphlets. Several
“slippery slope,”
letter carriers probut I fear it may
tested and walked
apply.
out over apparently Were we to simply allow one group of civil
There are arbeing threatened
guments for eiservants to refuse to do the job for which ther side of this
into delivering them
along their routes.
they are paid because certain tasks offend issue, of course.
The pamphlet
You could allow
in question was in
these individuals
their belief system, we would need to
fact a newsletterpass the task to
allow the same for all other civil servants. someone who
style ad published
by the Fundamentalis willing to do
ist Baptist Mission
it, but this raises
of Waterford, Ont.,
largely filtered, other things such as this the question of what to do when
which featured an article entitled The pamphlet can manage to get through there is no one who is willing to do
Plague of this 21st Century: The Consequences the screening system.
the task.
of the Sin of Homosexuality (AIDS). When
It is very tempting to submit to the
It’s hard to say which side I’d argue
given the pamphlets, several of the let- knee-jerk reaction of “Well, don’t force for if pressed — though I feel I can
ter carriers flatly refused to distribute them into carrying it” — as I did, I will safely say that it’s one of those “nothem along their route and managed to admit — but such a system will cause win” situations.
convince others to do the same.
problems down the line.
While the pamphlets themselves
gbarclay@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
Postal workers are, after all, public

I saw him in real life for the first time
last Friday. I’d heard of him before.
He goes around to campuses, finds
impressionable youngsters and deals
the white stuff to any willing student
who comes around, at the same time
helping to support a multi-billion
dollar industry.
His giant box-shaped body
stumbles around near the SLC as he
gets students to pose in front of a
video camera shouting, “Moo.”
That’s right: the milkmen have
invaded our campus. I tried to ignore
them, but the students, probably
from Markham (and who have never
heard a real cow), present a constant
mooing that haunted me as I walked
on. I pondered to myself: Why this
corporate advertising on campus?
Do we really need milk? And why
all this excitement to pose beside a
giant milk carton man?
And out comes my militant
veganism. I assume I’m slightly less
likely than your average Joe to purchase a “cow-spotted moo skin” or
“moo ringtone” for my cell phone.
It’s probably those underlying issues
I have with milk as to why Friday’s
incident bothered me so much, or
why the hip-hop dairy farmer commercials tend to make me twitch.
Studies in The New England Journal
of Medicine have begun to link dairy
with human health problems like
heart and Crohn’s disease, prostate
cancer, multiple sclerosis, premature
puberty and childhood diabetes. 20
per cent of Canadians either can’t
digest milk because they cannot
tolerate the lactose (genetic reasons)
or are actually allergic. Perhaps the
reason is that cow’s milk is meant

for infant cows? We knew this back
in the 1970s when Canadians boycotted Nestlé’s dairy formula with
the slogan: “Nestlé Kills Babies,”
because of its promotion to African
infants.
The treatment of most dairy
cows is not kind, and includes
removing the young from their
mothers just after birth instead of
suckling for 6-12 months. Females
are susceptible to disease, and male
calves face a fate of early death because they are not useful for meat
(in Britain they call this the “Calf
Processing Aid Scheme”). The
industry is good at coming up with
euphemisms for their work. It only
took a quick search of the International Dairy Foods Association
website to find a campaign claiming
to be “grassroots,” when in actuality it’s a chance for big industry to
lobby legislators.
Now I know I’m not likely winning you over, because you’ve probably been drinking the stuff since
before you should have. But how
about trying to reduce your consumption a bit? My present dinner
of veggie chili, potato wedges and
garlic bread from Brubaker’s isn’t
half bad! But yes, you need those
green vegetables or fortified drinks
to help you get the calcium you need.
The environmental impact of eating
this way is much smaller, because it
doesn’t require the land and energy
of feeding the animals or dealing
with their waste.
Other dairy products (you know,
cream, cheese, cream cheese) are
made up of a lot more fluid milk
per unit, and therefore cutting
down on these will reduce your
impact and your waistline. And if
your version of “joyful joyful we
adore thee” is “drink milk, love
life, fresh and cold,” please hang
your head in shame. They got to
you, kid.
— Darcy Higgins

opinion

FRIDAY, november 3, 2006

STARHAMMER

John Lee

Buy our things, fatties!
A new study about the girth of Canadians can mean only one thing

Good day fellow students, I hope
this current issue has left an impression…
Hmmm no wait, what would be
a clever choice of words expressing
this newspaper’s influence on you in
a way that ties in an obvious truth?
Well, I can’t think of something so
I’ll just move on.
There has been a recent report
that Canadians are not eating a balanced diet. You heard right tubby.
Like a petulant child, Statistics Canada is telling you to put down that
deep-fried lard-centred butter stick
you’ve been savouring, saying “look
at me, look at me and my methodically compiled data set.”
I’m a straight shooter. I don’t like
to muddle facts with fancy rhetoric
so I’ll present the findings in an
unobstructed, elucidating fashion.
More than 35 per cent of the average
Canadian’s calorie intake is derived
from fat. Expressed as a fraction,
that is 35/100 or, more shockingly,
3,500/10,000 – now think about that
number, 3,500. Would you really feed
your children that many gravy-soaked

corndogs? Well that is what Statistics
Canada is saying. It’s saying that you’d
be, or are, a negligent parent.
By following the eating habits of
35,000 Canadians, evidence showed
that 15.9 per cent of this fat intake
was ingested via fast food such as
pizza, subs, hamburgers and hotdogs.
Another 8.5 per cent came from cookies and doughnuts. In my experience,
however, this doesn’t sound unreasonable at all. My uncle Xavier used to
walk around with an IV full of bacon
grease flowing directly into his arteries. He never complained once, and
likes the intensive care unit he’s been
indefinitely confined to just fine.
Publishing data in this manner
isn’t just alarmist, it’s downright
irresponsible. Scare tactics like this
can only come from a bunch of
Nutritionazi fear mongers, who
can’t figure out what to do with
their degree now that their OSAP
loans are due.
Okay sure, it’s pretty bad that 20
per cent of the caloric intake of an
average Canadian come from sources
not even listed in the Canada food
guide, but do we really need to put
our bodies through the stress of
knowing what we are doing to our
bodies? My heart can barely pump
my dangerously high blood sugar
through my fat encrusted arteries as it
is. Making me stressed out about it is
only going to make things worse.
Now in the wake of this “study” I

bpinto@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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respect it deserves?”
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you in the upcoming election?”
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can already see the sit up clerics, pilates
rabbis and treadmill imams preaching
that what we need is more exercise.
Why? So we can line their pockets
with our hard-earned cash while their
muscular, colt-like bodies make us
relive our high school locker room
feelings of inadequacy?
If anything, we should be doing
less exercise. It can be inferred as such
— who were the smart kids in school?
The nerds. Who were the mouthbreathing troglodytes? The jocks. Now,
who should we emulate, the geniuses
or the morons? If you answered the
latter, congratulations on your perfectly
sculpted buttocks. You are also, however, trying to say that the nerds of
the world — the pale, loose-fleshed,
effeminate pansies — are wrong. Just
remember, they are the ones who got
the science award in high school and
you ate soap. Jerk.
We live in a first-world nation. That
means we were the first world to die
from an overabundance of food. Take
that, famine-stricken regions. Perhaps
a more even distribution of resources
and wealth could help alleviate the
problems which plague our respective
geographies, but that would make us
communists.
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(perhaps this could be changed with
a few more sit ups), so tell your
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The last claim of organic food
advocates that needs to be addressed
is that the trace amounts of pesticides
in inorganic foods are harmful to us.
While I’ll agree that these pesticides
are harmful in large doses, one must
keep in mind the mantra, “The dose
makes the poison.” Many things, even
water, are toxic in large enough doses,
but this doesn’t mean that they aren’t
harmless in smaller doses.
Our bodies are equipped with
many methods to deal with trace
amounts of harmful substances, and
they’re generally excreted harmlessly.
It’s only when the amount of these
substances grows beyond our bodies’
ability to handle them that we have
a problem.
So, is the amount of pesticides in
“inorganic food” enough to cause
a problem? Most likely not. Plants,
even organically grown, produce

natural pesticides far in excess of
what we spray on. Our bodies can
handle these just fine, so it’s unlikely
the small extra amount will tip us
over the edge.
I should also point out that
organic farming in fact does allow
some pesticides to be used (such
as copper sulphate, which is in fact
more dangerous than many pesticides
they’ve banned), but their standards
don’t necessarily take into account the
possible effects on humans.
As a final note, I’ll admit that I do
in fact agree with many of the humanitarian concerns of organic farming when it comes to the treatment of
animals. But these concerns can and
should be separated from their other
claims. They’ve gotten rid of useless
standards in the past, so I just hope
they’ll continue to do so with many
of their current standards.
— Bryan Gillis

FRIDAY, november 3, 2006

opinion

Contest ads make
women ‘desperate’
I work in an office. Besides the many
movie-worthy hilarious moments I
encounter, I am also subjected to listening to CHYM FM every morning.
This is a very torturous experience,
let me tell you. The music they play is
horrible 90 per cent of the time — and
they play the same bloody stuff in the
same bloody order everyday.
The relative crappiness of CHYM
is not what’s really bothering me. The
station is currently running a contest
titled, “Desperate Housewives: Las
Vegas.” The ads ask for women to
phone in and tell the station why they
desperately need a vacation.
Desperate Housewives has gone
from being a TV show to a cultural
cliché. Used in advertising, magazine
articles and contests on a regular basis,
it has become a standard phrase to encompass not only actual housewives,
but any wife or mother who feels a
little confined by her situation.
It’s not the capitalization on a
popular TV show that bothers me,
but what it insinuates. The concept
that the CHYM ad perpetrates is
one that women who try and balance motherhood, work and more in
the modern world are automatically
desperate and in need of a break.
While this is a challenging task, it’s
implied that they have to reach the
point of desperation before allowing
themselves a break. This is a common
and disturbing trend in advertising
that women have to feel guilty when
they take a break — unless they are
on the point of nervous collapse.
In their tenth anniversary issue,
Bitch magazine explored this very
issue. It cited ads that marketed acts
such as eating rich foods and taking a
break from the daily grind as “guilty
pleasures” for women. The CHYM
ad does the same thing — and it’s
not alone.

I think marketing and advertising
are some of the most regressive parts
of our culture. Cleaning, culinary
and child-rearing products are all still
primarily marketed towards women.
For example, the Subway ad parodying B-grade horror where a woman’s
family is literally about to eat her
because she has yet to prepare dinner
— and ta-da! Subway to the rescue!
So if you don’t have time to make
a nutritious meal, don’t think about
delegating the task to your husband,
just pick it up from Subway!
I grew up in a single-parent household, so this is not a phenomenon
that I witnessed in my own home;
however, my sister-in-law constantly
complains that she alone rears three
children — one of whom is a toddler
and she is currently eight-months
pregnant — while working as much
as my brother. When I visit friends’
houses, it’s always their mother who is
cooking dinner, going grocery shopping and driving the kids around to
various extra-curricular activities.
So, is the advertising a reflection
of the society in which we live, or
is it a contributing factor? If ads
started to portray both women and
men doing housework, would it really change society? Would women
then be allowed to take a break
without having a guilt complex
attached?
Realistically, advertising is a
minute part of society but it’s still
a contributing factor. Yet, the way
in which things are marketed to you
significantly affects the way in which
you engage with them; so, maybe if
the ads changed, a trickle down effect
would take place and society would
change as well. If women weren’t
shown that the cake they are about
to enjoy, or the bubble bath that they
are about to take, should be a “guilty
pleasure,” they won’t feel it is.
I’ve never really thought that
CHYM FM could have the power
to change the world, but who knows,
maybe if they changed the way in
which they market the K-W area
might change a bit as well.
acsanady@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

This week,Features is providing an array
of suggestions for students to practise
better behaviour. For some, this might
be everything your mother taught you
and more. For others, get your fingers
out of your nose and pay attention. If
you have suggestions on how we can
improve our etiquette, email features@
imprint.uwaterloo.ca.

Arguing politely is the new cat-fight
Margaret Clark
staff reporter

I barely had my foot in the door at the University of Waterloo before I gained a reputation
as “opinionated” — namely, because I liked to
argue and could hold myself well in most any
debate. Ironically, however, the longer I spend at
university, the more disinclined I became towards
getting into debates. In part, this is because my
views on the purpose, process and problematic
consequences of argumentation have changed
dramatically since I was a wee froshling. I now
realize how ill-prepared most people — myself
included — are for engaging in the kinds of
debates one should expect from university life.
The result being, of course, a less than productive
learning environment outside the classroom.
But change is possible, especially if we remember the cardinal rule: like any other facet
of human interaction, arguments require a
measure of mutual respect. This should be
fairly self-evident, as debating with someone
you don’t respect is never enjoyable for both
members: either you’re seeking to humiliate your
opponent and “prove” your own superiority (in
which case you’re a petty, petty individual), or
else your annoyance with that person and her
ideas will just escalate until you’re both in foul
and ultimately unproductive moods.

This rule ties into the ultimate purpose of
debate — which is not, as I used to think, to
persuade others to accept your opinions as
the “right” ones. After all, if this were
the real aim
of discourse
we could
settle all
philosophical debates
by physical prowess
alone. (Don’t
believe me?
Just try denying God’s existence while
trapped in an
arm lock or triangle choke!)
Instead,
though your
opponent will
occasionally
change her
mind in the
course of the arChristine Ogley
gument and perhaps
even concede her point to you, a successful
debate is invariably one in which both mem-

bers come away with a fuller understanding of
each other’s opinions, as well as the different
core assumptions that fuel them. It’s not
necessary, for example, to convince
someone either of God’s existence
or non-existence, so long as at
the end of the debate
you have a better
understanding
of how and
why your opponent holds
the perspective she does.
It’s also important to recognize when you’ve run
a topic into the ground: when you
and your opponent are just reiterating arguments you’ve already raised, the
debate is over. When you and your opponent are continuing to speak just so you
can each have the last word, the debate is still
over. And when you’ve taken to ad hominem
attacks in lieu of reasonable responses to each
other’s arguments, the debate is so over it’s not
even funny.
But above all, showing your opponent respect
involves more than not insulting their intelligence
or raising your voice out of anger at their opin-

ions. Respect also involves sincerity, something
that is often sorely lacking when debates occur
between people who might be attracted to one
another. You might think agreeing with whatever
your love interest says will score you big points
— or, at the very least, let you score — but
while, oh, say, a gullible frosh might be flattered
at first, she’ll also ultimately feel betrayed when
she realizes everything you said was a lie.
Certainly there is a place for the devil’s advocate in arguments — and in relationships,
too, disagreement is healthy — but if you’re
enjoying how much your shock-value statements are upsetting your opponents, chances
are you’ve crossed the line. You don’t have to
be an asshole to try on different perspectives
— and you shouldn’t be.
Ultimately, think of arguments as opportunities: for strengthening friendships and
acquaintanceships, for fleshing out your own
opinions and for gaining a better understanding of the opinions held by those around you.
When you fail to exercise mutual respect and
sincerity in your debates, not only do you lose
out on all three of these; you’ve also started
talking just to hear the sound of your own
voice. And believe you me, in time even you
will get sick of listening to that.
mclark@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

How to win friends and influence people
We asked people their etiquette pet peeves and here’s what some of them came up with:
“People that sneeze and wipe it on a chair or desk.”

Tiffany Li, 3B arts and business co-op

“When people drink your beer but never give any back.”

Darren Hutz, 4B English rhetoric and professional writing

“People walking by on the street that you know but
totally ignore you.”

Darcy Higgins, 4A environmental resource studies

“When people bother you with surveys when you’re
trying to write a column.”

Brendan Pinto, 4A physics

“Bad grammar and spelling in e-mails. ‘U’ and ‘r’
especially.”

Suzanne Gardner, 4A English language and literature

“People who break your personal bubble and don’t even
know you.”

Tim Alamenciak, editor-in-chief, Imprint

“People that let the door slam in your face.”

Ashley Csanady, 2A English and history

“Girls belching.”

“Waiters who bring you the wrong food and tell you it’s
what you ordered.”

Healthy eating for crunch time
When left-overs are so good, they’re meant to be eaten twice! It’s also efficient in a rush

It’s crunch time, which means that
students are being mauled with plenty
of midterms to last them well into
December.
With all this studying, one wonders
how we can still have time to make
something healthy to eat. There is a
solution dear readers! And it does not
mean trudging to the local fast food
chain for sustenance.
What you can do instead is create an emergency meal. Make this
a family-sized meal over the weekend, then portion the servings in

Tupperware and store in the fridge
or freezer.
If you happen to be pressed for
time during the week, this emergency
meal can be your saving grace.
Just take out one of your Tupperware containers, reheat in the
microwave and voila — an instant
homemade meal within minutes!
Now isn’t that just so much
more wholesome than turning to
purchased/fast food meals? I am
envisioning that you are nodding your
heads in agreement.
The preparation and cooking
for this recipe is simple. Clean up is
quick, which is essentially one large
skillet. This makes six servings and
can easily last you a week.
Beef is very temperamental so
you will want to take caution and
prevent it from going bad. If you
are planning on using purchased

beef within three days, remove the
plastic wrap and wrap it loosely with
wax paper. The idea is to let the air
circulate and keep the meat’s surface
relatively dry, thereby inhibiting the
growth of bacteria. Place the meat
in the coldest part of the fridge and
use it within three days.
If you are not using the meat
within a few days, keep the beef in
its plastic wrap; put it into a freezer
lock bag, and store in the freezer for
up to three months.

Zesty and hot, this dish will definitely keep away those cold winter
chills.
On its own, this dish is great,
but if you want, enjoy it with a side
salad, oven baked french fries, any
type of crusty bread or nacho chips
and guacamole.
This chilli pasta skillet offers the
rich goodness of vitamin A, vitamin
C, calcium and iron.
tli@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

1. In a large skillet, cook meat and onion, on medium-high heat,
until the meat is brown and onion is tender. Drain off the fat.
2. Stir in the beans, undrained tomatoes, tomato sauce, uncooked
macaroni, chilli peppers, chilli powder and garlic salt.
3. Bring to a boil then reduce heat. Simmer, covered, for about 20
minutes or until macaroni is tender, stirring often.
4. Remove the skillet from the heat and sprinkle the mixture with
cheese (your preference in adding how much you want)
5. Cover and let stand for about two minutes or until cheese is
melted.
Véronique Lecat

Etiquette of liveable roommate accommodation
Tips to being a good roommate and avoid being the mate that everyone hates
Meghan Withers
reporter

It’s that time of year again, halfway into the term. Yes, the time for
midterm exams, term papers and
for your roommates to really start
getting on your nerves.
Those little quirks and personality
flaws about these people that didn’t
bother you too much when you first
moved in together are now becoming
more bothersome.
Take for example a conversation
I had with my friend Judy. Judy’s
been having some issues with her
roommates — well, more like just one

roommate. She always knew that this
guy was a bit of a messy person and
earlier in the term she and her other
roommates enjoyed laughing at the
dungeon of chaos that is his bedroom.
But stuff piles up and eventually only
so much stuff can be tossed carelessly
into the bedroom. Now he’s slowly
taking over the rest of the house and
poor Judy is frustrated.
In lieu of Judy’s roommate
complaints, I asked around campus:
what makes a good roommate and
what makes a bad one?
And how can you tell if you’re
that roommate? Here’s what I
found:

Music

Whether you’re listening to it
too loudly, at bad times (e.g.four
o’clock in the morning) or repeating the same song or CD over and
over again (there’s only so much of
the Chili Peppers that you can
take in one day!). Music can
be a major irritant with your
roommates. Be considerate.
Food

One of the most common
complaints I heard was about
roommates eating their food.
Imagine coming home from a long
day of classes — you haven’t eaten
in several hours and are all excited
to eat that last box of Kraft
Dinner only to find that
your roommate has
just eaten it. I’d be
pretty ticked.
Cleaning

Just like our good friend
Judy, many students here at UW
have issues with their roommates’
cleanliness. Mile-high stacks of
dirty dishes, piles of laundry and
hair-clogged drains are definitely
not anyone’s cup of tea.
Visitors

Véronique Lecat

It may be great to
have friends come
visit you and stay
over night, but the
timing of the visit

may not suit your roommates. Don’t
have a house party on the night
before your roommate’s exam; it’s
just plain mean.
Significant others

Just because you think
your girlfriend/boyfriend
is all-that-and-a-bag-of-potato-chips doesn’t mean your
roommates do as well. Don’t
let their visits become overly
frequent — your roommates
agreed to live with you, not
your girl/boy-friend. Plus, you
don’t want your roommates to start
trying to charge him/her for rent
and utilities.
Pets

Whether you have pets visiting
or your pet lives with you and your
roomies, make sure you clean up
after them. No one wants cat hair
all over his or her house or apartment or a smelly fish bowl.
If your roommates are constantly on your case about the
above issues, I’m sorry,
but you might just be
that roommate.
Try to be the awesome roommate — the
one that is considerate
of others but doesn’t
let this consideration cramp their
own style.

Making light
of a stinky
situation

Blowing smoke without burning bridges
Tim Alamenciak
editor-in-chief

Smokers have their own culture. The
crew huddled around burning tobacco
fending off the cold with shakes and
sweaters even have their own system
of etiquette. There are certain taboos
— as with any subset of society.
The first bit of smoking etiquette
centres on the act of lighting the
cigarette. Offering a light to others was
once considered a gesture of kindness.
To a small extent, it is still a graceful
thing to do. I caution any potential
lighters to ensure that all hair is out
of the way. After several incidences of
singeing my own hair, I dare not take
the challenge of dodging a wiry maze
just to light someone’s cigarette.
Given that lighting another person’s cigarette is a gesture of kindness,
you should avoid lighting cigarettes
of people you don’t know or people
who wear Nirvana shirts but do not
fully understand Kurt Cobain. I hear
there is a motion being passed at the
federal level to extend a helping hand
to these people, but until then they
are bad, horrid creatures that should
be avoided at all costs and ridiculed
at every opportunity.
When someone offers to light
your cigarette, weigh your choices
carefully. You could lean in and push
your hair back, preventing any unnecessary hair fires. You could simply
stand there and refuse the light. Both
gestures are as significant as pushing
a grade school crush down on the
playground. Very, very serious.
The actual act of smoking is a
learned behaviour. Like the subtle nuances of prison culture, you can only
pick this up from others. Observe
the way of the smoker — the casual
ash flicking, inhaling and exhaling,
and talking while you exhale. All of
these are valuable traits.
Nowadays, smokers get a bad rap. I
do my best to correct this. When a child
is nearby, try to hide your cigarette. If
you’re a bandana-wearing cool guy, the
child will likely want to emulate you.
Don’t blow smoke at people
— hold your breath. Smoke in lowtraffic areas and never ever smoke
while someone else is eating.
Internally, smoking culture
is rather complicated. There are
many more intricacies that could
be divulged if I had the space of
a textbook.
The way smokers interact with
the outside world is becoming more
and more vital. When a member of
the tribe tries to leave the smokers
circle, the other smokers should be
supportive rather than critical. While
it’s true that quitters never win, the
prize for smoking isn’t really that
great anyway.
That being said, there are a fair
amount of karmic influences. I won’t
pretend to preach morality, but peer
pressure definitely isn’t cool. Neither is interfering with a dedicated
effort to quit.
Armed with this set of rules,
smokers and non-smokers will one
day be able to get along. Perhaps a
peace treaty could be drafted.
editor@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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FRIDAY, november 3, 2006

Pile-up: aisle #4 Cyclists may endanger many

Sharing this community means knowing the rules of the road and
The “Dos and Don’ts” of grocery shopping to
keeping the streets safe for everyone. It’s everyone’s responsibility.
increase efficiency and perhaps even fun
Tiffany Li
reporter

Student life means shuttling — via
bike, bus, car, rollerblades, unicycle
(yes I’ve seen it) and even on good
ol’ foot, for food to the local grocery
store. Perhaps at home you may have
had Mom ’n Pop assist you in this
area. However, here you are living on
your own and the majority of you are
more-or-less trekking into unknown
territory. In my years of trailblazing
up and down football field-stretched
aisles of many a grocery store, I have
gathered some insightful knowledge
and advice that you may find useful
to follow. This is all in the hopes of
creating the most satisfying, stress-free
and even fun (yes, it’s possible!) time at
the grocery store.
The following is what I offer to
you all as the super
commandments of
the market:
1. The carts are
to be used on the
premises. They are
not take-home
souvenirs.
2. Math skills
tend to go awry
at the supermarket: Taste-testing
$5 worth of bulk
goods does not
equate to you insertChristine Ogley
ing $0.10 into the
white canisters.
3. Do not cut people off with
your carts.
4. The right lane is for slower
moving carts, and make sure you
have other patrons’ attention when
passing. Left lane is reserved for the
return lane.
5. If you suddenly decide you don’t
want an item (i.e. apples) put them
back where you found them rather

than just discard them in some random
area where they can rot and emit foul
odours!
6. Look both ways before crossing a lane to pick an item up on the
other side.
7. Try as you might, you can’t
haggle for reduced prices at the
grocery store.
8. If there are clothes for sale,
don’t ask if there is a change room;
there isn’t.
9. If it says “please don’t break
the banana bunches,” don’t (and yet
I still see it all the time).
10. The tank of seafood is not a
visit to the aquarium — don’t expect
tricks.
11. Bring hand sanitizer. Germs are
gross and you know it — remember to
use it before and after the trip.
12. Gather all groceries, pay
for them, then eat them
— not the other way
around.
13. Shirts, pants
and shoes are not
optional items.
Please wear them
to the store. There’s
a reason for how
supermarkets can
stay so clean, and
this happens to be
one of them.
I hope that these
commandments will
serve you well. Please practice them. Before you know it, you’ll
adore a trip to the supermarket as
much as I do! Okay, maybe you won’t
willingly spend one and a half hours
there, but at least you’ll enjoy going
there more often.
If you have any other commandments to add to this fruitful list, please
don’t hesitate to send me an email.
tli@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Steven R. McEvoy
staff reporter

I really want to rant about this subject,
for a number of reasons. As someone
who has been a student here at UW for
eight years, I’ve frequently observed
that most bike riders in the university
area are a menace to themselves and
to others. I love riding my bike and,
for lack of access to a motor vehicle,
I ride my bike eight to ten months of
the year. But the cyclists around campus
are most often obnoxious, dangerous
and infuriating.
It is against the law in Ontario to
ride a bike on a sidewalk!
On the Ministry of Transportation
Ontario’s (MTO) website it states, “The
Ontario Highway Traffic Act (HTA)
defines the bicycle as a vehicle that
belongs on the road. Riding on the road
means mixing with other traffic. This is
only safe when all traffic uses the same
rules of the road. When everyone operates under these rules, actions become
more predictable. Drivers can anticipate
your moves and plan accordingly.
Likewise, you too can anticipate and
deal safely with the actions of others.”
That means; if you are on two wheels,
get off the sidewalk!
This is especially needed, now
that both University Ave. and Columbia St. have bike
lanes. I recently
checked with a
member of the

RCMP and was informed that not only
is it illegal to ride on the sidewalk, but
also illegal to ride the wrong way on a
bike lane. So if you’re on a bike, obey
the rules of the road.
I have a friend in town who is a
professor and happens to walk with a
cane. Bikes on Columbia St. have hit
him more than three times. He has been
knocked down and often the cyclist
does not even stop to see if he is okay.
Who in the world is that ignorant?!
Below is a list of the HTA’s rules
and regulations to follow when biking
anywhere in Ontario.
Yes, some of these rules are not very
trendy, but neither is hurting yourself
or putting someone else at risk. Use
some common sense, be polite and
be safe!
It’s understandable that as a cyclist,
sometimes, maybe even often, cars do
not yield when you have the right of
way or may even put you as a cyclist
at risk. But you have choices; you can
walk instead, you can ride and obey the
rules of the road, being extra vigilant of
cars, or you can do what most cycling
students do and become a
danger to others due to your
behaviour.
Sometimes the right decision is not the
easy decision.

smcevoy@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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A few years back I was hit on my bike
on Columbia St. near Weber St. A classic Volkswagen Beetle drove up over
my front wheel while making a right
hand turn to cut through a parking
lot, without even doing a shoulder or
mirror check. My bike was toast; the
guy had the wheel fixed, but the forks
were bent and it was never the same.
However, if I had been on the sidewalk
and not the road, I would have been
the person at fault.
I do want to acknowledge that
there are many cyclists who do follow most of the traffic rules, and
regulations. They are a credit to their
mode of transport. Yet unfortunately,
too many cyclists, especially around
campus, have a flagrant disregard for
the law and the safety of others. They
endanger all near them, and need to
be taken to task on their reckless
behaviour. So I implore you do the
right thing and ride on the road — not
the sidewalks — please.

According to the HTA on the MTO’s website,
a bike is legally responsible for:
HTA 144/136 —Traffic signals and signs: Stop for red lights and stop signs and comply with all other signs.
HTA 153 — One-way streets: Ride in the designated direction on one-way streets.
HTA 147 — Slow moving traffic: Any vehicle moving slower than the normal traffic speed should drive
in the right-hand lane except when preparing to turn left or when passing another vehicle. Cyclists must
ride far enough out from the curb to maintain a straight line, clear of sewer grates, debris, potholes and
parked car doors. You may occupy any part of a lane when your safety warrants it. Never compromise
your safety for the convenience of a motorist behind you.
HTA 142 — Signaling a turn: Before turning, look behind you and signal your turn. Cyclists can use their
right arm to signal a right turn.
HTA 140/144(29) — Crosswalks: Stop for pedestrians at crosswalks and walk your bike when crossing
at a crosswalk.
HTA 178 — Passengers: Passengers are not allowed on a bicycle designed for one person.
HTA 178 — Attaching to a vehicle: You are not permitted to attach yourself to the outside of another
vehicle or streetcar for the purpose of “hitching a ride.”

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HTA 104 — Helmets: Every cyclist under the age of 18 must wear an approved bicycle helmet. Parents
or guardians shall not knowingly permit cyclists under sixteen to ride without a helmet.
HTA 175 (12) — Stopped School Buses: Stop for stopped school buses when the upper alternating red
lights are flashing and the stop arm is out.
HTA 62 — Lights: A bike must have a white front light and a red rear light or reflector if you ride between
½ hour before sunset and ½ hour after sunrise.

attend our information session:

HTA 62 (17) — Reflective tape: A bike must have white reflective tape on the front forks and red reflective tape on the rear forks.

Wednesday, November 8, 2006 11:30 am – 1:30 pm

HTA 75 (5) — Bell: A bike must have a bell or horn in good working order.

To learn more about the MMPA Program,

Room 1113, Tatham Centre, University of Waterloo

www.rotman.utoronto.ca/mmpa

HTA 64 — Brakes: A bike must have at least one brake system on the rear wheel. When you put on the
brakes, you should be able to skid on dry, level pavement.
http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/pubs/cycling/cyclingskills.htm#traffic

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Hair expectations raise prickly questions
Following up on the queries and conundrums of maintaining your pubic hair: what do people really want?

Pubic hair grooming seems to be
quite a tricky issue for a lot of people.
Last semester I gave you some tips
for grooming your groin (see “The
Lovin’ Blog” if you missed it: www.
lovinblg.blogspot.com); since then
I’ve received many questions about
grooming etiquette.
One reader wondered how to
broach the subject of shaving with
his girlfriend of about one year,
who used to practice shaving but
now lets things grow wild. This
is a tricky situation indeed — depending on your partner and your
relationship.
For some couples, it isn’t a
problem if one partner wants to
try something new or wants their
partner to do something different;
they can ask without worry because
they know that their partner will not
be offended.
But it sounds like this reader
might be worried about his partner’s
ability to handle (or perhaps even
recognize) constructive criticism
or suggestions about her appearance.

Some of us can get a little sensitive
about our appearance — as if our
partner asking for a change means
that there is something wrong with
us or that we have failed in some way.
Of course, this is silly.
A good way to bring up this topic
is delicately. You need to let your
partner know that you still think they
are sexy but that you wish they’d start
shaving/waxing again because it was
a nice treat.
Contrary to what some people
might say, I don’t think you’re wrong
to want her to groom again. It’s just
pubic hair — people don’t usually
flip out if you tell them that you liked
how their hair was cut last year or
that you think they would look better
with longer or shorter hair. In fact,
it’s not that different from asking if
she would start wearing lacy lingerie
more often.
There are a few different ways
to approach this issue with her:
“Hunny, how come you don’t trim
your pussy fur anymore? I really
liked how it looked — it was really
hot!”
You could also try: “Hey sweetie,
look at this picture I found online/in
my e-mail from [insert crazy friend’s
name here].” Yours looked like this
when we first started dating — man,
that was so awesome!” This is known
as the “hint, hint” approach.
Another approach would be to
groom yourself — your partner might

notice the change and be inspired to
follow your example or they might ask
you about it and you can respond with,
“I was thinking about how much I
liked it when you used to shave/wax
and decided to do a little grooming
myself for you.”

It’s not wrong to
ask your partner
to try something
different or to
bring back an old
favourite — but it
wouldn’t be right
to pressure them
or make them feel
guilty.
You could even give your partner a
gift certificate for a bikini or Brazilian
wax as a gift.
It’s not wrong to ask your partner to try something different or to
bring back an old favourite — but it
wouldn’t be right to pressure them
or make them feel guilty.
Maybe they’ve started taking you
for granted and being reminded about
how hot you think they look a certain

Avoiding dinner-date disasters
Julie Vieth
reporter

The meal you order on a first date can
be equally or even more important
than what you’re wearing or how
your hair looks.
I know this because over the past
couple of years I’ve heard numerous
first date horror stories involving
food. I’ve also experienced my own
first date food disaster. I am going to
share some anecdotes about the most
disastrous first date foods.
1. Mussels

Just a few Saturdays ago my boyfriend and I ran into a friend of
mine at the Rude Native.
He was out with a girl for
the first time, but he invited
us to join them. His date
was very nice, attractive and
things seemed to be going
well for them.
Let me just say that I
am not a fan of seafood at
all — actually, the smell of
seafood absolutely disgusts
me and I was a bit grossed out
by the large plate of mussels his
date ordered. He didn’t seem to
mind them though — so I thought.
I asked him about the date the next
day and the first thing he said to me
was “It was so disgusting the way
she was slurping those mussels. I
don’t think she has any manners at
all!” I’m pretty sure they didn’t have
a second date.
2. Chicken wings

One of my exes told me a story
about a girl who ordered wings on
their first date.
She got wing sauce all over her face
and licked her fingers continuously.

He was not impressed. She didn’t
even attempt to be polite.
Wait, is it even possible to be polite
while eating wings? Needless to say
he never took that girl out again and
I made sure never to order wings
when I was out with him.

first date with this guy who ordered a
two-patty burger (that’s gross enough
in the first place) with the works and
extra hot sauce. After eating about
half of the burger he began sweating
— not just a little bit of sweat.
He started off with sweat beads
on his forehead that turned into
constant dripping and visible sweat
marks on his shirt. He looked like
he just ran a half mile. She lost her
appetite completely.
The result: she avoided his phone
calls until he got the point.

3. Noodles

I have made the mistake of ordering fettuccini alfredo on a first date
— I don’t know what I was thinking.
I have never been skilled at eating
spaghetti, and fettuccini is basically
the same thing.

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During the date the noodles hit
me in the chin, giving me a beautiful
alfredo sauce goatee. The worst part
is that I found myself ignoring my
date because I was concentrating on
trying to eat my fettuccini. I learned
my lesson.
Now I always ask the server to
substitute the fettuccini noodles with
penne or macaroni.
4. Spicy foods

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One of my girlfriends was on a

Remember that these foods
are okay to eat when you’re out
with your girls, your buddies or
your long time partner but when
it comes to first dates, they are
no-nos.
Bear in mind that this is
one of those things that is,
as we say, skin deep. If you’re
meant to be, or if a friendship
flourishes from your date, then
disastrous food experiences will
become hilarious stories down
the road.
There is one exception to the
rule of avoiding these foods: if
you find yourself out on a first
date that starts going badly before
you even get to the restaurant and
you don’t want your date to ever call
you again just order one (or many) of
these disastrous foods and go nuts.
If you find yourself accepting a
dinner date, think before you go. Suggest a restaurant that has lots of different choices. If you’re a messy eater
no matter what you order, maybe you
should avoid dinner dates altogether.
Messes happen, do your best to just
laugh them off but always remember
that if you think ahead, you can at
least try to avoid disaster.

way might remind them of how hot
you both are for each other.
Some people have equated pubic
grooming (shaving, waxing, etc) to
labial and other genital cosmetic
surgery, but that’s like equating a new
haircut with a facelift or nose job!
It’s just hair — being two or three
feet lower on your body shouldn’t
make it taboo.
Another nice thing about it just
being hair is that it grows back. You
can trim or wax or shave it any way
you like and when it grows back you
can try something different or let it
go wild.
But if you are going to let it go
wild, please keep in mind a lover who
might want to go down on you without having to bring along a comb.
Personally, I think that trimming
one’s pubic hair should be about
personal comfort. But when you’re
looking around for examples of what
other people do and what potential
lovers might expect, I can see how
things can get a little hairy.
In mainstream porn, it’s true that
the majority of women seem to be
either totally shaved or only have a
tiny landing strip, but porn stars keep
themselves groomed like this for two
main reasons.
One reason is that they are being paid to have sex and the people
paying them to have sex want to
be able to see everything. Hair is
removed so that the viewer can see

exactly what’s going on, which is
sometimes just a lot of red bumps
from ingrown hairs.
The other reason is that the makers of porn are trying to cater to
what they think the average viewer
wants and apparently they think that
the average viewer wants to see their
porn actors clean-shaven.
Which now raises the question,
if these “average viewers” do want
this, how many now only want it
because that’s what they’ve seen in
porn? And this leads into the question — if your future lover has been
watching a lot of porn, are they going to be expecting you to be clean
shaven as well?
You know what; I suspect not,
they are just going to be happy to be
allowed to see that part of you.
Trimming will be just fine for keeping things looking neat and for making
sure that you don’t have any hair getting
in the way of your activities when you
do reach the right time for your first
serious sexual encounter.
Shaving might be something you
decide to do once in a while as a treat
or it might be something that you later
decide to do regularly — but there’s
no need to worry that someone is
going to be disappointed when they
get in your pants, because they certainly won’t be, no matter what your
hairstyle is.
ssparling@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

The Queen sets the bar on
issues of etiquette
With Adrienne Clarkson’s upcoming book talk scheduled November 9 at UW,
we thought it fitting to include a passage from her new book Heart Matters.
Clarkson recalls the different issues of etiquette that she encountered
when dining with the Queen:
“I was interested to see that since we were having lamb chops they were
(as I had always been told in good etiquette) picked up between thumb and
forefinger to finish them off. And also that the Queen powedered her nose
at the table. In Canada, we had always been brought up to believe, from the
time we were little girls, that we were never supposed to do anything to our
makeup at the table, so I am simply passing on the information for those
who like to keep up-to-date with royal etiquette.”

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FRIDAY, november 3, 2006

Hosting horrifies helpless hopefuls
There is a real talent associated with
hosting. Anyone can invite people
over to their house, apartment or
condo, but it takes a certain amount
of flair to turn that invite into an
affair. Luckily, hosting is something
that can be taught and learned.
Here are a few basic pointers
that will get you started on hosting.
However, the real trick to hosting is
to find your own groove. The essence
of hosting is to allow your guests to
feel comfortable and for everyone to
enjoy themselves. For some guests this
means constant attention and a lot of
attention to detail on the part of the
host; for others, just providing the right
type of atmosphere is all that is needed.
Your job as a host is to create that
atmosphere, whatever it may be.
First, decide. It sounds simple,
but the first step usually is. It’s your
responsibility as host to decide what
type of event you want to plan. Are
you going to have an informal gath-

ering? Is it a black tie event? Is it a
dinner party? You need to decide what
type of party you want to throw or
else it just won’t work. After all, you
can’t expect your guests to decide
for you.
Which brings me to my next point:
choose your guest-list carefully. Don’t
invite your hard-drinking friends to
a cocktail party if they’re used to
doing keg-stands. Don’t invite your
movie-loving friends to a book-ofthe-month club. Don’t invite your
parents to your kegger. But most
importantly, when you decide what
type of party you want, plan your
guest list accordingly.
My parties are usually of 20-30
people. I try to invite between 15 to
20 and I limit the number of people
who can bring friends. I’ve had bad
experiences where friends bring friends
who bring friends and next thing you
know, some guy is puking in your pool
and lighting their belly-buttons on fire
with 151 proof rum. It was an awesome
party, but not what I had planned.
This leads me to another important step: plan, but don’t live by the
plan. Parties are meant to be fun.
Don’t spend your weeks prior to
the party planning every little detail.
“Okay, at 9:10 we’ll start Pictionary,
but I want that to be done by at least

9:45 so the cheesecake has time to
warm.” Micromanaging a party goes
against everything a party is supposed to be.

Don’t invite your
parents to your
kegger. But most
importantly, when
you decide what
type of party
you want, plan
your guest list
accordingly.
Next, make sure that you’re enjoying yourself too. After all, you’re
throwing this party as much for your
enjoyment as theirs. There’s a certain
amount of joy in the pride you take
for throwing a good party, but it’s not
nearly as good as throwing a good
party that you enjoyed too. On the flip
side, as host you should never be the
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part of your job as host is to set the
barometer. People will take their lead
from you, as host. So pop a bottle of
the bubbly and try to create a sort of
average drunkness that everyone else
can set their intoxication levels to.
Also, plan ahead. I know it goes
without saying that every party takes
planning of some sort, but here are
a few things to focus on, namely,
traffic. Remember where people will
be arriving and where people will be
leaving. If you’re inviting smokers,
remember that they’ll probably be
smoking on a porch or balcony (if
not in your home) and you need to
leave those pathways clear. Not only
is it a safety concern, but it also helps
the flow. Next you’ll want to plan
for seating. Having a chair for every
guest usually ends up having everyone
sitting. I try to have enough seats for
half of my guests and I try to place
them so that there are a few different
areas to sit and chill.
If you place all the chairs in a
circle, in a room, you’ll have a bunch
of people in an awkward situation
staring at each other. Use tables and
other accent furniture to divide spaces
and encourage mingling.
Plan your time as host. Expect
to stay awake and sober enough to
stay in control until every guest has

been taken care of. If they’re crashing, make sure they know where the
blankets, pillows and garbage cans are.
If they’re leaving, make sure they have
rides. It’s not the worst thing in the
world if you go to bed while you still
have guests as long as you can trust
them and they don’t need your help.
I’ve gone to bed during my parties
knowing one of my close friends was
still up and was keeping an eye to lock
doors at the end of the night.
Finally, remember to be a good
neighbour. Remember that not everyone is a student and many people
have day jobs. Worse yet, many people
have night jobs, evening jobs and
afternoon jobs. Never assume that
your neighbours live the same lifestyle as you. Give your neighbours a
heads-up when you’re having a group
of people over. Even if they’re opposed to it, promise to try your best
to keep it quiet. At least they’ll have
been warned and will probably give
you more slack than if you surprised
them. However, don’t be surprised if
your neighbours are more pissed at
you not inviting them than the noise
it may produce. After all, if you’ve
taken my advice, you’re going to be
throwing one kick-ass party.
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Mayoral candidate Brenda Halloran takes a
soft and fair approach to problem solving. Her
focus is on involving all parties when resolving a
conflict, garnering a sense of working together
rather than against each other. Halloran exuded
a strong sense of community throughout our
interview.
Environmental issues top the agenda for Halloran. She is strongly opposed to the proposition
that Waterloo could build a pipeline to Lake Erie
to replace our groundwater, saying that Waterloo’s
groundwater is its most valuable resource.
In addition to emphasizing the vitality of
Waterloo’s natural resources, Halloran discussed the
importance of maintaining a small-town attitude.
“All the people I have talked to like the
small-town attitude of Waterloo,” Halloran
said in an interview with Imprint. “We’re a small
town at heart.”
Halloran’s approach to student issues maintained this strong sense of community. She
emphasizes discussion between permanent
residents and students living in close proximity, an investigation in to the placement of
sound barriers and an established committee
beyond the current regional Town and Gown
Committee.
The continual focus on community and cooperation is no accident: Halloran hails from a
background in conflict resolution and mediation. Her post as an alternate dispute resolution
advisor for the Canada Revenue Agency has
provided this sort of training.
Halloran, while in favour of improvement
in our transport system, was hesitant to pledge
support for a light rail service. “We could
use buses too. They have some very efficient
models in Europe.”
The position of mayor is, in Halloran’s words,
“the centre of the community.” Her focus is
on maintaining diversity and tolerance within
Waterloo. She cited an example, “If there was

a fire at someone’s house, I would want to be
there just to say, ‘What can the community do
for you?’”
Halloran’s focus on the community extends
beyond promises of post-housefire visits. When
asked about amalgamation, Halloran said that
she would not stop it if the community came
forward and asked to amalgamate. If the decision was in good financial interest and the
community backed it, she would go forward.
Otherwise it is not a priority.
In the past, Halloran has been nominated
for the Oktoberfest woman of the year. She is
a community and environmental activist.
“The University of Waterloo is crucial to
the success of [the city of] Waterloo,” Halloran
said. “UW is one of the major players globally
in the technology industry.”
Brian Turnbull

Mayoral candidate Brian Turnbull cites three key
turning point issues in the city of Waterloo as
his main reasons for running for his position:
transportation, growth and the water pipeline.
His most important focus is on the water
pipeline issue and how he thinks the city needs
to change its usual plan of action. “Right now
we plan first and consult second,” explained
Turnbull, who has previous experience as a
town planner. “We need to get input from the
public first. It’s time for a change.”
Turnbull thinks that it is important that students vote in municipal elections because they
“deserve a say and they are a big part of the
population in Waterloo.” He cites his previous
work teaching a planning course at Wilfrid Laurier
University, his many guest lecture spots here at
the University of Waterloo and his previous nineyear stint as Waterloo mayor in the 1990s when
addressing his competency in dealing with the
issues of students in this city. “I listen, consult
and then act,” explains Turnbull.
According to Turnbull, the water pipeline is
the most important issue in this election. Turnbull
emphasizes that “there is no rush” and that the
city “should keep looking for the big picture and
tackle the issue on the basis of the entire region.”
If elected, Turnbull plans to propose an innovative
environmental challenge to the region, involving

various local environmental, technological and
business groups for consulting purposes.
In regards to striking a balance between
student issues and the issues of the permanent
residents of Kitchener-Waterloo, Turnbull refers
to the recent noise bylaw complaints and student
housing difficulties. In the matter of compromising between both parties, Turnbull thinks the city
should relay this message to the students of this
city: “live here in our community as you would in
the community you just left.” He states that “if
an issue is coming up we should jump on it as
soon as possible, talk to all the parties involved
and then come to the best solution.”
Turnbull thinks that UW plays a central role
in the future of Waterloo and its developing
high-tech era. “This place is about to blossom,”
explained Turnbull. “With its firm strong roots
and green attitudes, in the next five years this
city will truly blossom.”
Herb Epp

If you ask Herb Epp, the key to running the
region of Waterloo is experience — something
he has no shortage of. The two-time mayor
who’s been involved in municipal and provincial
politics for nearly three decades is taking yet
another run at the mayor’s seat.
Epp started his second term in office five
years ago amidst the RIM Park financing
scandal, which set his and his council’s goals
off track. “Because of the RIM park scandal
a few years back,” he said, “we’ve had some
budgetary concerns that have increased our
spending by 20 per cent, which is way beyond
what we wanted but very necessary for capital
demands.” He hopes to start his next term in
office by implementing some of his plans to
revitalize Uptown Waterloo right away.
“I’d like to get a four-star hotel in uptown.
As you probably realize, there’s not much accommodation in the area and that’s something
we need to improve. As well, we still need to
improve uptown traffic flow and parking…
I’d like to see a new parking garage built near
CIGI.”
Epp, a Laurier grad and former Waterloo
high school teacher, is sensitive to the needs of
Waterloo’s student population. He has served on

both UW’s and WLU’s boards of governors, as
well as the Town and Gown committee, a group
that examines homeowner-student issues in the
region, such as the noise complaints during the
frosh week toga party.
Despite those few disturbances, “Here
we’re cognizant of the tremendous impact
that students have on the region…they’re very
welcome here,” begins Epp. “It’s a multifaceted
impact… we have this side effect of grads
and almost-grads [like Mike Lazaridis] who
create tremendous employment opportunities
in the region and are able to invest in cultural
initiatives and the community at large…they
help provide a higher standard of living to
Waterloo.”
Epp wants to see student involvement in
regional politics increase because “everyone
regardless of age [should get] a chance to
voice their opinion… whether they be senior
citizens or students. I understand that it might
be difficult to fulfill that since they have so
many other priorities at the universities and
they might not choose to live in the region
past school.”
The former mayor’s response to talk of amalgamation of essential services such as hydro is
that it not only hurts residents’ wallets, but civic
involvement as well. “I’m opposed to this because
the system is working well as it is now, and it still
leads to higher taxes and more expense. If you
want to make the local municipalities impotent
then you take away they their ability to control
services…you can get delegations of citizens
involved on a municipal level, but they don’t feel
as comfortable going to the region about their
concerns.”
Despite his long and varied career, Herb
Epp is still passionate about leading the region
into the future. “What I’m saying is that it’s not
enough to only have experience in municipal
government. Knowing [the region] as well as
I do is a tremendous asset, and if [other candidates] don’t have that, then I don’t think that
they can fully appreciate what it takes to lead
the region effectively.”
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All-candidates debates were held Wednesday,
October 25 and Thursday, October 26 for the
upcoming municipal election. However, the
proceedings resembled question and answer
sessions more than debates, as very few answers were rebutted and the discussion was
not particularly passionate.
Attendees were asked to fill out sheets with
their questions, which the mediator proceeded
to order and ask. The mediator also posed
some questions of his own, when audience
questions were lacking. Candidates were given
one minute to answer each question and an
additional 30 seconds each for rebuttal. The
first debate was held at Waterloo Collegiate
Institute for Ward 6, which consists of mostly
University of Waterloo properties and student
housing. The three candidates in this ward are
Charles Borras, Mary Connolly and Jan d’Ailly,
the incumbent.
Both Borras and d’Ailly referred to fair
student housing policies on their platform
pamphlets, so they were asked to clarify what

exactly they meant by the term. Although
one might assume fair student housing
policies would refer to being fair to the
students themselves, both candidates placed
an emphasis on being fair to other citizens.
D’Ailly said that the city “needs to make sure
areas do not get overrun by students in a
negative way,” while Borras’ only answer was
“you’ll know it when you see it.” Connolly
also commented, stating that she would like
bylaw officers strengthened to improve the
outside appearance of student properties and
that she is concerned about students living
in “damp” places.
All three candidates also mentioned the
problem of too many absentee landlords in
charge of student homes and stated that they
would attempt to rectify it. Borras’ solution
was to increase high-density development
near the university, for students to live in, but
to also be reasonable about the amount of
students — a seemingly contradictory answer
that aimed to please both students and other
citizens. Both Connolly and d’Ailly emphasized the importance of bylaw enforcement,
while d’Ailly also noted that more permanent

residents should be brought onto the Town
and Gown committee, which deals with student and citizen relations, to “nip permanent
issues in the bud.”
The candidates were also asked to comment on the most important issues relating to
students in this election. All three agreed on
the importance of affordable housing, while
Borras also plans on advocating for reasonable
tuition, despite the fact that it is out of municipal jurisdiction. Both Connolly and Borras
remarked on how they believed that students
are apathetic towards municipal politics, with
Connolly saying that students are “not really
interested in civic living, they have far too
much to think about,” and Borras adding that
students are “just not a good fit at this time,
with municipal politics.” None of the candidates
mentioned plans to get students more interested
and involved in the city.
The Ward 7 debate was held at the Centre
for International Governance Innovation the
following evening. Ward 7 encompasses the
University of Wilfrid Laurier, so it is adjacent to
UW’s ward. The candidates for this ward are Ian
McLean, the incumbent, and Sher DiCiccio.

The Ward 7 candidates were also questioned on the issue of affordable student
housing and they echoed the sentiments of
the Ward 6 candidates, with DiCiccio saying
she would look into the high number of
absentee landlords and McLean emphasizing higher density student housing. McLean
also stated he would consider conducting a
study on homelessness and creating a housing development around University Ave.
and Erb St.
DiCiccio claimed she has “a good reputation with students,” so she would go to campus
and talk to them to obtain input on municipal
issues. McLean planned to get students more
involved by getting student leaders to come to
council meetings, which DiCiccio countered
by proposing regular on-campus meetings with
students instead.
When asked why students should vote in this
election, McLean stated that students should
become involved to improve their own community while DiCiccio answered that they should
vote because they have the unique position to
be able to vote in two places (at home and in
their school district.)
More information on all the candidates and
the schedule for future public debates can be
found at www.mywaterlooregion.com.

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Development issues taint election
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Darcy Higgins

staff reporter

Waterloo Mayor Herb Epp received a $300
campaign donation in 2003 that is now raising eyebrows. The donation surrounds Planning and Engineering Initiatives, a business
involved in one of the hottest issues in this
year’s campaign.
Oponent Brenda Holloran is concerned that
Waterloo’s next City Council will allow dense housing development on Waterloo’s sensitive west end
lands. At Thursday, October 26 evening’s candidate’s
debate, she was to present documents showing the
donation was made by the company who approved
the development on the Waterloo Moraine in their
environmental impact study done for the City.
Holloran along with many community members
oppose the development due to concerns such as
groundwater protection.
“They’re planning subdivisions so small that
many of the houses can’t even support the planting of one tree,” Holloran told Imprint. “They
will remove the protective layer of clay and put
our groundwater at risk of contamination,”
she said. Environmentalists say groundwater is
threatened when increased pavement prevents
rainwater from infiltrating the ground.
“My support on any particular issue can’t be
bought for one dollar, $100 or the max, $750,” he
said, making reference to the maximum campaign
donation. Epp defended himself, saying, “There
isn’t anyone who can say to me, ‘You voted that
way because somebody gave you something?’
Because I never have in my life and they couldn’t
prove it because it’s never happened.”
All local environmental groups have been in
opposition to the development for several years.
Presentations are periodically made to Council by
local activists and hydrogeology experts. The City
has an Environmental First Policy but activists say

that current council members have not lived up
to it. Prominent UW experts Alan Morgan and
Emil Frind have been two of those speaking and
have lent their support to Holloran. Prominent
activist and Waterlooians.ca representative, David
Wellhauser, completed a 24-hour dance-athon at
the Starlight Lounge on Sunday, November 5 to
raise money for the “save the moraine” campaign.
The Subdivision plan is currently on hold. After
going to Regional Council, environmental and
traffic concerns were raised. The subdivision
is to be landlocked with just one street extending from Erbsville Road to connect it to 1,600
houses. According to Holloran, “there is no
proposed transit in the area for ten years, forcing everyone to use cars.”
Paul Puopolo, president of Planning and Engineering Initiatives has been a member of Home
Builders’ associations and the Ontario Stone, Sand
& Gravel Association, a group representing the
aggregate industry including road-building materials. According to their website, “Mr. Puopolo is
responsible for co-ordinating and supervising the
major municipal environmental, recreational and
developmental planning projects of the firm.”
A pipeline has been proposed to reach Lake
Erie for drinking water when Waterloo Region can
no longer support itself with groundwater supplies. Holloran claims that could cost billions.
“How can we afford that? We have time to
protect our water resources and protect what we
have while we still can,” Holloran said, while claiming to still be pro-business and development.
The 7 Generations Network, a local environmental organization, has surveyed all local
candidates on environmental topics including the issue of further development on the
Moraine. Full survey results can be found by
November 8 at: www.7generations.net.
dhiggins@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Tim Alamenciak
editor-in-chief

Mike Connolly, currently a member of our
regional council, is basing his re-election on
a track record of listening, caring and taking
action. During an interview with Imprint,
Connolly initially expressed his enjoyment of
students in our community, being a father and
grandfather of several.
When asked about the state of student
housing in Waterloo, Connolly offered advice to
students suffering from absentee landlords.
“The bylaws that you don’t use very often are
the safety and health [for housing]. You can get
a landlord to make sure the house is safe. Very
few complaints come through,” he said.
Connolly was quick to speak about the
region’s transportation situation, supporting
some kind of alternative to our current Grand
River Transit system. Connolly supported
the decision for the region to investigate
alternatives or improvements to the current
system.
“You measure a transit system by how
frequently it runs and how quickly it gets you
from A to B. Apart from our express route, the
bus doesn’t run frequently enough and cover
off the area.”
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cide between a light rail system or a revamped
bus system.
In addition to such student-centric issues,
Connolly also discussed the state of health
care in the region, focusing particularly on our
capacity to offer rehabilitation to addicts. He
noted that rehabilitation often takes two visits,
but with our current facilities only one visit is
timely. The second often comes too late.
Connolly realizes the disconnect between
regional council and the student population.
“Students go mainly to city council. I would
like more [students] to go to the region,” he
said. Among many things, students can go to
regional council to report bylaw infractions
by their landlords or complain about regional
services like transit.
As for the amalgamation of Waterloo Region, Connolly says no-way. He cited the need
for some hard evidence that it would lead to an
economic improvement in the community. A
further disconnect from government was also
one of his fears.
The amalgamation of Waterloo Region will
be a major item on the agenda for the next four
years. It would involve consolidating Kitchener,
Waterloo and Cambridge under one name and
one government.
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How your vote can
make a difference
The power of democracy and information

Why should students vote in the municipal
election? “Who cares?!” many say, while others
demand “we must, as it’s our civic duty.” Let’s
examine the recent Imprint articles concerning
municipal politics, then discuss.
On October 6, reporter Sukhpreet Sangha’s
article discussed the high percentage of students
in Waterloo Region, citing that we comprise 25
per cent of the population.
Unfortunately, despite the number of wards
increasing from five to seven, University of
Waterloo students, located in Ward 6, are still
separate from students of Wilfrid Laurier in
Ward 7. In any case, student apathy hurts our
powerful potential as voters. Students find many
reasons not to vote including our transient “coop” nature and our disregard for Waterloo as
our community rather than just the place we
go to school.
Chris Miller’s September 19 article discussed the City of Waterloo’s “You Decide”
campaign, which is geared at getting the
students out to vote. The “You Decide”
campaign highlights bylaws, recycling, housing and transportation as top student issues.
I, for one, do get excited about bylaws and
recycling because I’m an environmental
studies and political science graduate.
In fact, I cared so much that I interviewed
regional councillors for my senior thesis,
which analysed the Waterloo Region Pesticides Bylaw that was implemented last year.
For those of you who might not appreciate
such topics, I have more! Why wouldn’t
you want a better transportation system?
Imagine a Waterloo where buses came every

5-10 minutes instead of 30; a Waterloo with
student housing that is close to campus, is
owned by a good landlords and is — gasp
— even affordable! This is a Waterloo that
you can create.
From my experience being the Federation
of Students president, I have seen directly
how municipal politics affect students. Sitting
on the Waterloo Council Town & Gown committee, I meet regularly with City of Waterloo
officials such as police, bylaw enforcers and
councillors.
One concern is usually bylaw enforcement of parties, especially those involving
kegs and recently our Annual Orientation
Week Toga party, which generated hundreds
of complaints and much publicity due to
the noise it created. This committee strives
to maintain positive relations between the
universities and the city. Student-friendly
councillors are crucial in such a governing
body in order to maintain the good relations
that allow us to continue running events like
the Toga Party.
Councillors not only shape the future of
Waterloo — they shape our future. Councillors now have four-year terms. That means
that the councillors voted in right now will
be here for the entire time that current first
years are here. For you upper-years who are
leaving Waterloo and think it irrelevant to vote
— think of the first years — vote for their
“generations.”
UW strives to maintain its reputation in the
community and to help bring Waterloo into the
future. The community needs to recognize the
importance of its students. However, the onus
is on us. It’s our responsibility to demonstrate
that students care and show them by voting.
Until then, we will be underrepresented and
have a small voice in this municipality and the
region.

— Michelle Zakrison
President, Federation of Students

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The role of the
regional government
Duncan Ramsay
reporter

Given the fast approach of the
upcoming municipal elections, it’s
important to have a solid grasp of
what exactly it is that these elections
affect — what the person you’ll be
voting for is, in fact, going to be doing. The newly elected government
of Waterloo will have a direct effect
on the lives of the UW student
body and on a wide variety of issues
throughout the city.
Three different types of municipal
governments exist within Ontario.
Lower-tier governments, such as cities, towns, townships and villages, are
generally responsible for issues only
on a local level. These governments
usually take responsibility for things
such as local roads, garbage collection,
fire prevention, recreation and local
land planning.
Regions and counties, known
as “upper-tier” municipalities, deal
with issues affecting a larger area,
which will usually incorporate several lower-tier municipalities. These
governments tend to be responsible
for things such as policing, water and
sewer systems, waste disposal, larger
roads, regional land planning and
health and social services. The University of Waterloo and most of its
connected student houses currently
fall under the jurisdiction of the City
and Region of Waterloo.
The third type of municipality is
known as a single-tier municipality.
These governments exist mainly
in northern Ontario and in certain
areas of southern Ontario, where
upper and lower tier governments
have amalgamated for reasons of
efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The
most notable example of this is the
city of Toronto, which amalgamated
its governments in early 1998.
The local government of Waterloo is currently comprised of
a mayor and five councillors, each
representing one ward or area of the

city. This number will be increased
to seven wards and councillors during the upcoming elections.
Between themselves, the mayor
and councillors are responsible for
creating the laws, policies, budgets
and other legislation, which will
affect their respective jurisdiction,
and in turn be carried out by the
city administration. Most Canadian
municipalities operate on a “weak
mayor” system, in which the mayor
himself is considered the first among
equals on the city council, but has
little or no special legislative powers.
Each councillor is in turn responsible
for representing the interests of his
ward.
The members of this council
operate in a variety of ways. These
include council meetings, public
hearings and standing committees
responsible for monitoring the states
of specific issues.
In addition, community members or organizations who wish to
bring an issue before the council
may do so by forming a delegation
to the council, and may be heard
near the beginning of most council
meetings.
The regional government of
Waterloo works on much the same
premise. The legislative branch of
this government is formed of the
Regional Council, which is in turn
comprised of the seven local mayors
within the region, eight councillors
representing the tri-City area, and
a chairman. Citizens of the Region
of Waterloo will be asked to vote on
two regional councillors, as well as
the council chairman.
The municipal government that
will be elected on November 13 will
have a profound effect upon the
constitution of the tri-City area. By
voting on Election Day, you won’t
just be placing someone in office,
but helping to decide how Waterloo
citizens will live in this city. It’s a
worthy cause — so get out there
and vote!

different decision making, even in that
group, is simply amazing.”
She believes that getting involved
is an asset for students themselves as
“it’s one more thing you can say on
your resumé that will help you get
a job, [as it] shows leadership and
involvement in your community. You
can set yourself apart from someone
who is just a great student.”

Ward 6 councillor candidate Charles
Borras states that he turns to “students newspapers [to] see that students are concerned with a variety of
issues: cleanliness of drinking water,
campus safety, environmental.”
He explains that he is running
for the position of councillor because he “cares what goes on in the
community” and “this was a way
[he] could try to have a say in what
happens.”
When asked about how he plans
to balance both student issues and
the issues of permanent residents,
such as housing, Borras explains that
“housing is housing. Housing doesn’t
distinguish between student citizens
and non-students. It’s about having
enough housing, period.”
Regarding the regional transportation system, Borras thinks that the
cities need to join together in order
to meet the needs of the region. He
explains that he would like to “learn
more about [the current system]
because [he doesn’t] use the system.
But [he thinks that] knowing how
it’s meeting or not meeting students’
needs is important.
“I’d like to see taxes reviewed at
all levels,” states Borras. “For me I
would like to see there to be more
tree-planting, more green areas inside
the city — reduce taxes for people
who plant more trees and that kind
of thing. Perhaps that tax increase
could cover the decline in tax income
for people who engange in that kind
of activity.”
Most importantly, Borras thinks
that “students should inform themselves of the issues, check out the
candidates and vote the way they
think they should.”
Mary Connolly

Waterloo Ward 6 councillor candidate
Mary Connolly touts sustainable
growth as a hallmark of her campaign.
She predicts that Kitchener-Waterloo
will grow in size over the coming
years, and aims to equip the City of
Waterloo to support that growth.
Connolly has been behind the
scenes in Canadian politics for 15 years,
running the campaign for her husband,
regional councillor Mike Connolly. He
is up for re-election this term.
Mary Connolly’s attitude towards
students takes the stance of a compromise.
“Unfortunately students like loud
music — residents don’t. I don’t think
loud music should go past 12 p.m.
unless there is a special reason for
it,” she said. Connolly also proposed
solutions like decibel-level restrictions and allowances for distance
from residential areas.

Ian McLean

John Toal

UW recently ran up against council
and bylaw decisions when the orientation committee received flak for
excessive noise at the toga party.
Connolly stressed the idea of
compromise, mentioning that if loud
parties only occurred a few times a
year, she would be inclined to ask the
residents to let it slide.
Connolly’s environmental concerns would see her revisiting the
west side decision and working to
protect Waterloo’s groundwater.
The west side decision has been a
controversial one during the course
of the municipal election race.
“The city has been spending the
growth instead of putting it in to
infrastructure. Unless you have certain things in place, when you grow
things happen that shouldn’t happen,” she said. Connolly then cited
absentee landlords as a symptom
of this growth. She urges students
to get in touch with a bylaw officer
or councillor.
“I think students’ main concern is
safety in housing,” Connolly said.

Connolly’s feeling on the light
rail transit decision is that a bus
service with buses every three
minutes — a system modelled
after London, England -— would
be significantly more cost efficient.
Under this system, you can hail a
bus rather than waiting at the designated stops. Express busses would
augment this system.
Accessibility is high on Connolly’s
personal agenda. She recounted times
of running her husband’s campaign
and seeing what went on behind the
scenes, noting the importance of
being visible.
“I don’t like what I see, and I don’t
think it’s good for Waterloo. I would like
to spend a few years of my life devoted
to my community,” Connolly said.
Sher DiCiccio

Sher DiCiccio is one of two candidates running for election as
Councillor in Ward 7. She decided
to run because she feels that “now
is a good time in [her] life to make
the commitment.”

DiCiccio has been involved with
the creation of the Waterloo Community Arts Centre during the past
14 years, allowing her to interact with
City Council and other community
groups. Two years into that venture,
she got the “bug” to get involved in
municipal politics.
She believes students should vote because “they are a really valuable resource
in our community and they can play an
important role in the development of
the policies that affect them.”
Not only does she encourage students to vote, but also to volunteer
on committees that help the city
form different policies, such as the
Cultural Development Committee or
the Economic Committee.
DiCiccio thinks students should
vote for her because she “tries very hard
to get to know people on an individual
basis,” so students could feel free to
talk to her about their concerns. She
also maintains that she “really, sincerely
values input from everybody.”
Balancing student issues with
those of other residents is an im-

portant responsibility for a municipal
councillor, and DiCiccio plans to do
so by being proactive and going to
the campuses to link with the student
federations and student unions. She
also feels that “students have to
educate the council about what their
issues are and council has to educate
students about [their] concerns.”
When asked what role UW plays in
her vision of the future of Waterloo,
DiCiccio responded that she “see[s]
UW as a very important resource to
city planners, city staff and council…at all levels, from the students to
the professors.” DiCiccio maintains
that “students are the ones who are
learning the newest information. So,
if we can get students involved in
committees, we can make sure the
latest information is getting used in
our decision making.”
As a councillor, DiCiccio would
help students get more involved by
“look[ing] for ways to streamline [the
volunteer process].” She has mentored
many students in the past 12 years and
believes that “what they bring to our

Ian McLean, the current Ward 5 Councillor, is running for re-election in the
newly formed Ward 7. Although most
UW students do not reside in his ward,
McLean has dealt closely with issues
pertaining to the university in the past
three years and he claims that this won’t
change if he is re-elected.
McLean feels that he is the best candidate for the job because he has lived
in Waterloo for his entire life and he has
a lot of experience in both the private
and public sector. He owns a consulting
firm in Waterloo and has three years
experience on City Council.
When asked why he believes
students should vote, McLean responded “to help them fall in love
with the community and stay here,”
adding that the city wants students to
continue to reside in Waterloo after
their studies due to their high level
of intelligence. He also believes that
the universities are tremendously
important to the economic vitality
of the community and students need
all levels of government working
together to see their importance.
More specifically, McLean feels that
students should vote for him because
he “brings a young perspective,” since
he is a relatively young, former WLU
student, who understands student life
and housing issues. He is also committed to improving community services
if elected, especially those which students use, such as the public library
and various recreational facilities.
In response to the low voter turnout at municipal elections, McLean
proposes using new technology as
an incentive for younger voters. He
thinks Waterloo should try to make
voting easier, such as employing the
electronic balloting which other jurisdictions already have in place.
According to McLean, the most
pertinent issue for students in this
election is sustainable growth, especially relating to the universities
themselves. To him, the growth of the
city is intrinsically connected to that
of the universities, so new requirements must be established at both
levels. McLean is most concerned
with maintaining the environment,
city services, recreation opportunities, arts and culture endeavours, and
the quality of life in Waterloo.
Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties on Imprint’s end, Ward 6 incumbent
Jan d’Ailly’s interview will run in the
November 10 issue.
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Leslie Havens
staff reporter

Every four years the cities of Waterloo, Kitchener, Cambridge, and
the townships of North Dumfries,
Wellesley, Wilmot and Woolwich hold
elections to determine their municipal governments. At the same time,
residents of these seven communities
will be selecting their representatives
for the Regional Council of Waterloo.
The Region of Waterloo is one of
the fastest growing regions in Canada
with a population of 450,000.
The Regional Council is made up
of two councillors from Waterloo and
Cambridge, four from Kitchener and
the mayor from each city or township. The Regional Chair candidates
run in each municipality’s election so
that the region as a whole can select
one representative. The councillors,
mayors excluded, are barred from
holding positions in the municipal
governments during their term to
avoid any possible conflict of interest.
The City of Waterloo has five candidates for the two councillor positions:
Mike Clancy, Mike Connolly, Jane
Mitchell, Ed Spike and Sean Strickland. There are three candidates for
the Regional Chair position: Robert
A. Ross from Cambridge, Ken Seiling
from Elmira and J. Robert Verdun
from Kitchener.
The Regional Council’s vision
statement reads: “The residents of
the Region of Waterloo will enjoy
the highest possible quality of life
and equal opportunity. The Region
will support communities, foster
excellence, encourage entrepreneurship, manage sustainable growth,
and maintain harmony between
rural and urban areas.” The council
provides the vast majority of the
municipal level services we use on
a daily basis.
But what exactly does the Regional
Council do? Here is just a sampling
of their services:
q Adopt-a-road program — with
over 70 organizations and over 6200
bags of garbage collected from our
streets
q EMS service — a fleet of 27
vehicles and eight stations
q Recycling Programs — including cart, textiles, electronics, battery,
printer cartridge and cell phone
recycling services
q Waste Collection — including
yard waste, hazardous household
waste and wood-chip programs
q Public Transit system
q Waterloo Region Library
— serving rural areas without access
to the Kitchener, Cambridge and
Waterloo public libraries
q Licences — taxi, limo, second-hand shop and salvage yard
licenses
q Affordable Housing Strategy
— addressing the need for affordable
housing with 1200 units built as of
September 2006

Regional councillor Jane Mitchell is
gunning for re-election armed with a
platform of environmental concern
and economic consideration. In the
past, Mitchell has been responsible
for the addition of several bike paths
to Waterloo Region. She sits on the
cycling advisory committee.
In addition to providing more
accessible bicycle transportation,
Mitchell supports the renovation of
our transit system at both the regional
and university levels.
“I know the U-pass, [a nonrefundable universal bus pass for
students], is controversial, but when
you have it, the bus becomes a good
option,” she said.
In addition to supporting a universal bus pass, Mitchell is committed
to transit improvement, proposing
either a light rail or articulated buses;
long buses with a joint in the middle
that run on a dedicated route.
Mitchell noted the importance of
a revamped transit system in light of
UW’s current and future satellite campuses. With a notable distance between
the two, Mitchell said a better public
transit system would help the students
who need to get to the main campus.
Student housing was mentioned
briefly. “With the two satellite campuses, student houses will be spread
out a little more,” she said.
Amalgamation, a hot topic during
this year’s municipal election, is the
furthest thing from Mitchell’s mind.
“It’s not going to happen,” she
said. “I would like to see fire and water
turned over to the region, but there’s
not the will for amalgamation.” Amalgamation, a provincial-level decision,
has been the heart of questions from
several citizens during this election.
The region currently controls police
and emergency medical services, but
fire services are still left to the cities.
Mitchell foresees the shift of fire services from the cities to the region, but is
hesitant to predict the fate of water.
When asked how regional council
can serve students, Mitchell responded
simply: garbage and recycling, and thorough education on the protocols.
With two terms of service under her
belt, Mitchell’s re-election to regional
council will mark a long run. She sees
environmental issues as the central focus of this election, particularly the fate
of the Waterloo moraine and the new
west side development of a YMCA and
sports complex. Council approved an
evaluation of the joint venture between
the University of Waterloo and the City
of Waterloo this year.

Sean Strickland

Regional councillor candidate Sean
Strickland decided to run for his
position because he thinks “we could
use more leadership at the regional
council than we have currently.”
In order to change the current
state of the regional council, however,
Strickland emphasizes the importance
of having students vote. “The region
makes decisions that impact students
directly, such as [regarding] transportation, which affect the quality of life for
students,” explains Strickland.
In addition to his desire to increase
leadership in the regional council,
Strickland also thinks students should
vote for him because of his “track
record of community service, postsecondary education support and
being approachable.” Previously,
Strickland was chiefly involved in
supporting the high-tech park here
at the University of Waterloo and
the satellite campus in Kitchener,
as well as being a key negotiator in
striking a deal with regional transit for
discounted student bus passes.
Above all, Strickland said that the
most pertinent issue in this election
is growth, as he said that “we need
to protect environmentally-sensitive
lands where we can, but we also can’t
stop development […] we need to
find the right balance.”
Strickland also said that “the relationship between students and residents
has improved over 100 per cent over the
years.” He cited both education and the
work of the Federation of Students as
contributors to this improvement, and
said that he wants to “continue to keep
the lines of communication open and
respect the needs and wishes of both
students and residents.”
The candidate also addressed the
issue of control over water and sewer
services possibly being transferred
from the city to the regional government. Strickland explained that this
streamlined plan would lead to a “concentrated effort to maintain cleanliness,
as well as savings in water bills.” He also
referred to the 14,000 complaints of
brown water in area houses last year,
and the city of Waterloo’s plan to fix
this problem within 25 years. If elected,
Strickland would host “a public meeting
to solve this problem sooner.”
Strickland also expressed his
thoughts that regional transportation
should play a lead role in connecting
all of UW’s campuses, including Cambridge, Kitchener and possibly Stratford. He emphasized the importance of
“connecting the cities, and by extension
the campuses” and proposed to solve
this problem by increasing the number
of buses and creating dedicated lanes
for public transportation vehicles.
In acknowledging that the students
of UW, WLU and Conestoga College
comprise a large portion of the Waterloo’s population, Strickland stressed that

he “would like to hear from students.”
Ed Spike

Ed Spike is running for regional council in the municipal election because
he “[has] a concern for what goes on
in the governing of our area” and he
believes he “can make a difference in
terms of [his] approach.”
In his opinion, the role of regional
councillor involves “quite a few things,
[including] what’s going on in the region
as a whole.” However, he thinks that
“the region should be more involved
around activities, rather than being
directly involved in it [financially.]”
In 2004, property taxes were raised
by 4.1 per cent, the largest such increase
of the term. Spike would like to see this
increased revenue used on transportation, to “save on the cost of developing
major [infrastructure.]” However, the
police are definitely his priority because
“if the fire [department] is amalgamated there is going to have to be some
cost for the rearrangement.”
Regarding the issue of student
transportation, to the increasing
number of satellite campuses as well
as the local Ixpress line, Spike said,
“The more you put into developing
urban structure, the more it is going to cost you.” So he suggested a
high speed north/south line to connect the cities, and using a light-rail
transit system as it would be more
economical in the long run and is
environmentally friendly.
In addition to the financial aid
already pledged, Spike believes the
region should support UW’s new
satellite medical campus by “looking
at transportation, reducing traffic, [and
by implementing] an economical lightrail transit [system.]” He also thinks
that encouraging the GO train to come
into Kitchener would be useful.
When asked how he would balance
serving student issues with those of
other residents, Spike responded “I don’t
think we [should] call them students and
non-students.” Instead, he believes “it’s
a matter of neighbourhoods” and that
it’s “an educational process.”
Spike believes students should vote
because they “have an obligation to get
involved” and they should do so to
“sway the direction” the region is going to take. More importantly, students
should vote for him because he would
take “a different set of management
parameters to council” and “help it as
a team.” He also has children in school
at Conestoga College, UW and WLU,
so he “know[s] their needs and what
they are and how they are different
from the rest of the community.”

COUNCIL

Unfortunately Mike Clancy was unavailable for an interview by press time.
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Tim Alamenciak
editor-in-chief
Bob Verdun

Regional chair candidate Bob Verdun is mad as hell – really, he said
so himself. Verdun, once a UW
student, comes armed with a background in newspaper publishing,
extensive community involvement
and traffic.
Verdun is aware of concerns about
the Grand River Transit system, but
doesn’t support the light rail system
entirely. When asked why students
should vote for him, Verdun responded, “Because I’m going to bring
them the GO train.”
“That’s not something that’s going to help a lot of students. Most
students want to be within walking
distance of the university and need
some mode of transport to go to
Toronto,” he said.
In order to link UW with it’s future and current satellite campuses,
Verdun proposes a more efficient
bus route as opposed to a light rail
system.
Verdun served on the policy advisory committee to the minister of
transportation for two years. Verdun
also led the Elmira Independent through
an award-winning series on water
pollution in Elmira.
“Building on the moraine can be
done carefully,” said Verdun. Verdun’s
problem with the development on
environmentally sensitive land is
the need for transportation. With a
subdivision of that size, he said, the
roadwork would encroach on vital
environmental resources.
Verdun wants to open council up
to the citizens, encouraging people
to approach their regional chair and
council as well as the mayor.
“I’m toying with a parliamentary
type of concept. If I were regional
chair, I would form a government
and an opposition and then the issues
can get debated,” said Verdun when
asked about the inner workings of
regional council.
With the question of amalgamation being rushed to the forefront
over the next four years, Verdun has
solidified his viewpoint on the issue.
“The two-tier government has to go,”
he said. He then went on to discuss the
possibility of conglomerating two cities, perhaps Kitchener and Waterloo,
rather than mixing all three.
The process, according to Verdun,
would be done entirely democratically
– ensuring that the citizens play a role
in defining their city.

the region through multiple crises, a
smoking ban and the creation of a
growth plan, Seiling maintains bright
hopes for the future.
“The community is at a critical
junction in it’s growth,” said Seiling
in an interview with Imprint. Seiling
spearheaded the initial growth plan
for the region.
In preparation for this growth,
Seiling is in full support of a light
rail transit system. He envisions a line
running down the cores of Kitchener,
Waterloo and Cambridge, linking UW
to both satellite campuses.
Based on studies and advice from
other communities, Seiling thinks
this is the ideal solution. The light
rail transit system would be funded
by investments; a method Seiling
compares to Toronto’s subways.
In addition to this, Seiling would
like to see UW adopt a U-pass. “It’s
good for students. My kids have gone
to other universities where they have
it, and it’s been great. Laurier’s has
been a big success.”
Seiling’s growth plan is focused on
curbing urban sprawl while maintaining environmental concerns.
“The plans for development are
undergoing a compliance review,”
said Seiling. The review is being
conducted to ensure that building
plans, particularly for the west side,
meet Ontario requirements, preserving the natural landscape.
To Seiling, amalgamation is a dead
issue. “Our current government isn’t
interested.” He will investigate the
potential for shifting services around.
Currently, the region controls ambulance and police services, with fire still
being left to the individual cities.
“Amalgamation will not go anywhere,” said Seiling.
Seiling said that the regional council is very accessible to residents, citing
an attendance level of approximately
200 citizens for a recent meeting
regarding public transit.
Universities rank high on Seiling’s
list of accolades for the region.
“Our universities bring research, job
growth and investment potential,” he
said. Seiling mentioned that many
students will be living here in the
future, looking for jobs and good
social and health services.
Seiling’s anticipation for the
growth of Waterloo region was clear
during the interview. He emphasized
the importance of preparing for this
growth, mentioning that the growth
plan he spearheaded in 2001 was later
implemented in 2003, and picked up
by the province of Ontario.

CHAIR

Robet A. Ross
Ken Seiling

Incumbent regional chair candidate
Ken Seiling has 21 years of experience under his belt. Having seen

Unfortuately, Robert A. Ross was unavailable for an interview by press time.
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If you were on city council, what
would be your first motion?
By Tiffany Li and Anya Lomako

The October 26 concert at Fed Hall wasn’t
afraid to work for the massive turnout, even
though the tickets were free. With the openers
preparing to hit the stage there was still a long
line coming into Fed Hall, and they had been
letting people in for half an hour.
Inside, people milled around the bar area
at the far end of the club from the stage,
some sitting on the edge of the dance floor,
and only a fistful of the first band’s diehards
right up in front of the stage. There couldn’t
have been any more than 15 diehards. In the
vastness that is Fed Hall, it would require,
and always does, a major feat to fill that
dance floor.
The Marble Index, an alt-rock band hyping
their second album, Watch Your Candles, Watch
Your Knives, waited for the beer guy MC to finish
their introduction so they could emerge. They
were the least known group — smallest name
on the poster, certainly much smaller than The
Trews. Only a few people, mostly staffers, applauded their entrance.
Undaunted, guitarist Brad Germain, bassist Ryan Tweedle and drummer Adam Johann
Knickle kicked off the concert with a bang.
Marble Index is one of those bands that you
probably won’t recognize by name, but you
definitely know a couple of their songs if you’ve
consumed rock radio or TV. They had a big hit
a couple years ago off their debut album in I
Believe. You’ve probably heard it.
They also lent “All That I Know,” a catchy
track from Candles/Knives, to a Zellers commercial. While they are largely unheard of,
their music is similar in style to popular rockers. They’re somewhere between Hot Hot
Heat and The Killers. They’re like Montreal’s
answer to The Strokes, even though they hail
from Hamilton. Knickle’s ruthlessly driving
drum beats are characterized by Germain’s
frantic drawl.
It’s one thing to get a crowd on its feet when
they own your CD and know all the lyrics to
your songs, it is another thing entirely to get an
audience that will only vaguely recognize your
music, to do the same.
To say their performance was spirited would
be an understatement. They rose to the task of
being the first act, and worked their asses off
to get people to flood the dance floor from
the wings and bar. All three of them were constantly in motion throughout the performance;
Germain even took one his guitar solos into
the middle of the audience.
For their last song, they all switched instruments without missing a beat. They left
the stage to the sound of strong applause.
They brought such a high level of energy
and straight work ethic, it was hard not to

darren hutz

Colin Macdonald, Sean Dalton, Jack Syperek and John Angus Macdonald dominated the Fed Hall stage on October 26.
enjoy. Expect big things from these guys in
the near future.
The Miniatures, who played next, were comparatively bereft. When Mr. Beergut McAfro
— you might recognize him from a beer commercial — got through their intro, the dance
floor was close to full — due in part to their
notoriety, and in part to the lingering effects
of Marble Index’s contagious energy.
That’s not to say that their unique brand of
ambient rock is in any way bad, but they didn’t
put nearly as much obvious effort into their
performance as did the openers, and later, The
Trews. Maybe in a smaller venue like Starlight,
in another context, I would’ve enjoyed them
more, but in this environment of hard-working, blue collar rock, they just didn’t fit. They
had a few sparkling moments in an otherwise
mundane 4/4 rock set. But what they lacked in
enthusiasm, they made up for in pointy leather
shoes and berets.

The Trews had the whole crowd, including
folks up in the second floor, on their feet and
cheering within seconds. Marble Index worked
up sweat impressing the audience out of necessity; the Trews did it out of pure respect for
the fans. Lead singer Colin Macdonald hacked
through gritty vocal acrobatics, singing himself
hoarse while lead guitarist John-Angus Macdonald thrilled the crowd with his electrifying solos.
Like Marble Index, their energy was uncanny.
They played each song like it was the last song
of the concert; I was constantly surprised when
they continued. They showed incredible endurance, particularly on Colin’s part.
The Trews don’t bank on particularly complicated chordal structures or melodies. With
simple and tough blues-driven rock songs that
hang on notably pedestrian statements like “I’m
tired of waiting” and conversely “I’m not ready
to go,” they aren’t trying to impress anyone with
any complexity.

Their virtue comes from the cathartic effect
of shouting those refrains among others doing
the same, and they made damn near impossible
to resist with their engaging showmanship.
Despite the simple structure to most of their
songs, they brought a wealth of raw talent and
musicianship to the show. The guitar solos were
frequent and awesome. The vocal harmonies
were subtle and pervasive. No song fell flat,
each one was given the type of special treatment
that is usually only reserved for the final song
of the concert to leave the audience feeling as
thought they had experienced something of
note. At no point did the energy drift or wane
through their whole set — including the encore
and break preceding it.
Fed Hall has always been a fantastic rock
concert venue, and last Thursday’s concert epitomized everything a good rock show should be.
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How Much For That Soul? The Diabolical History
of Dr. Faustus hit the stage on Monday, October 30. Doors were set to open at 9:00 p.m.
but the production was running a bit behind
and didn’t start until an hour later.
The musical was presented at the Button
Factory, also known as the Waterloo Community Arts Centre, on Regina St. North.
I’d never heard of the venue before but
was pleasantly surprised. It is in the heart
of uptown Waterloo, which makes it easy
for students, families and other community
members to attend.

Before I tell you what happened next, let
me give you an introduction to save you from
wondering who the heck Dr. Faustus was and
why you should care about him.
The Faust legend is that of a man selling
his soul to the devil for earthly power and
riches. Shakespeare’s arch-nemesis, Christopher Marlowe, wrote The Tragical History of
Doctor Faustus, published in 1604 (11 years
after Marlowe’s death). Since then, there have
been many adaptations to the Faust legend.
This musical was no exception — adapt they
certainly did.
In what can only be described as ambition at its finest, the performers proceeded
to put on an exciting and compelling show

spotted with technical difficulties and lengthy
transitions.
But man, was it fun!
Encouraged to dress up in the spirit of
Halloween, handfuls of people stood amongst
angels and witches and rock stars, waiting for
the show. Kristy-Lee Palma (KLP) of UW’s
own CKMS radio station appeared at the
front door and lets us in first.
Purgatory music played as we entered
and we were seated in a big top floor room
decorated with black curtains and obscure
art. The stage was set up with a piano and
chairs for the orchestra on stage right, while
drums, amps and guitars were set up for the
individual bands on stage left. In the middle,

a black door loomed, from which each artist
would eventually appear.
The rest of the audience was then ushered
in, filling the entire room with about 150
people. In fact, there were so many people
that a few rows of unanticipated audience
members were left sitting on the floor. I
found my own legroom was impeded by a
girl’s dreadlocks.
The orchestra entered the stage and we
clapped. They were dressed all in black and
were carrying violins, a bass, and flutes — not
to mention the complicated-looking instruments I could never possibly name.
See SOUL, page 24

arts

22

Assassin granny
on the loose

FRIDAY, november 3, 2006

Prominent people
make Heart Matters

Mr. Bean star, Rowan Atkinson, and legendary actress Former Canadian Govenor General Adrienne Clarkson
reflects on her life before politics
Maggie Smith make a well-balanced comedy
Adrienne Clarkson
Heart Matters: a memoir
Viking Canada

Based on my experience, elderly women are
often the kindest and warmest people you
can ever hope to encounter. Because of this,
encounters with a “woman of experience”
are usually short and sweet — especially
if this meeting results in your quick death
(short but perhaps not sweet for the victim,
actually).
Keeping Mum, similar to a rapid death at the
hands of a woman more than twice your age,
is short and sweet with just the right balance
of comedy and story development.
The central character of the film, Grace
Hawkins (played by Maggie Smith), is your
run-of-the-mill sadistic yet sweet grandmother assassin. In the film, Grace is hired
as a housekeeper by a typically unusual family
of four. The family consists of an extremely
asexual father minister (who much prefers
Bible-reading to sex with his wife), a slut for
a daughter, and a sexually frustrated burntout mother.
I know exactly what you’re thinking and
to answer your question, yes I am capable
of simple addition. I purposely left out the
son, aged 8-12, who is practically left out of
the entire film in comparison with the other
three members. Although he is shown briefly
in a few scenes concerning him being bullied
and his subsequent revenge, his involvement
is minimal at best compared to the rest of
his family.

Grace Hawkins has no trouble adjusting
to her new domestic life as housekeeper
— apart from random murders in the village — which is surprising as she had been
incarcerated in an insane asylum (or psychiatric ward, if you prefer to remain politically
correct and whatnot) for most of her life.
She is my personal favourite, just because of
the unexpected nature of her character. Her
madness is so subtle yet so clearly dismissed
by herself and those around her that she is
so morbidly amusing.
I must admit that I half-expected Rowan
Atkinson (who played the minister) to mimic
his well-known Mr. Bean personality, since
so many entertainers regrettably allow their
popular characters to define them in other
work that they do — take Michael Richards
as Kramer, for example. It deserves mentioning that Rowan Atkinson portrayed Reverend
Walter Goodfellow very well without any
beany predispositions (and was still funny).
With just enough of a story to keep you
interested, ample character dynamics and
a definite surplus of comedy, Keeping Mum
is worth the trip. Even though I’m partial
towards dark comedies — especially British
ones — I can honestly say that if I wasn’t,
I would have still thoroughly enjoyed this
movie.
Although I still firmly believe that elderly
women are especially nice, I will be sure to
take extra caution when encountering any in
the future — as we all should.
— Andrew Abela

When you retire from a prominent role these
days, you’re often asked to write a book,
typically a memoir or a biography about life
before and during
your tenure. When
she left the post of
Governor General,
Adrienne Clarkson
signed a contract to
write three books.
Heart Matters, the
first book, is her
memoir.
Adrienne Clarkson has been a public
figure since the age
of 25 when she did
pieces for the early
CBC Television program Take Thirty
before rising to the
role of co-host.
However, Heart
Matters is not a book
about her public life
per se. Rather, it is a
book about a small
family that escapes
a war ravaged Hong
Kong in a Red Cross
exchange and begins life again in Ottawa with
virtually nothing to their name.
More specifically, this book contains
Clarkson’s reflections on the elements that
gradually formed to create the person who
becomes Governor General. While she
does spend time commenting on her time
at Rideau Hall, it only makes up the last
third of the 257 page book. Nevertheless,
reviewers and interviewers have tended to
focus on this portion of the book. As she
said in an interview with me, “I knew that
[the reviewers] would all, especially the lazy
ones, focus on the political stuff. That’s why

I have gone around publicizing the book so
that people would understand and know what
it was actually about.”
Heart Matters is a fascinating memoir for
someone who isn’t interested in taking the
conventional approach to building a career.
What looms large for Clarkson is the Japanese
invasion of Hong Kong
when she was three. It affected her as she grew up
and she wasn’t alone,
“When I was growing
up in Canada in the ‘40s
and ‘50s, it was a shared
experience with a lot of
people who became Canadian then, like all the
displaced peoples from
Europe.”
University students
can empathize with the
student-aged Clarkson
who had no idea what was
after university except
that she didn’t want an
ordinary job.
Like all young people
full of ideals, Clarkson
knew that her destiny
was going to be different. While others soon
grow out of this and
turn to more pragmatic
vocations, Clarkson details in her book how she took the road less
travelled.
If you are looking for a chronological
biography, this is not it — nor was it meant
to be. Clarkson has highlighted the events
and the people in her life who were important
to her. A quick and engaging read, this book
will be a treat to those who have watched
Clarkson since she was the fresh-faced book
reviewer on Take Thirty and seen her mature
into the woman who one day became Governor General.
— Neal Moogk-Soulis

Most people detested The Grudge. I am not
most people. Coming from a strict Vietnamese
family, being raised to believe in supernatural
philosophies similar to those of the Japanese,
for me, The Grudge was a thought provoking
horror thrill ride that could almost come true.
However, the same could not, by far, be said
about its sequel, The Grudge 2.
The Grudge 2 reeked of both bad acting and an
overly complicated, underdeveloped storyline. To
start off, Sarah Michelle Gellar, the only convincing
actor in the entire movie dies within 20 minutes.
Bad actors then take the spotlight with horrible
dialogue and facial expressions. The movie continues through three different time frames; two
in the future and one in the present. As predicted
the frames are all connected by the movie’s raging
spirit, one taking place after the other but displayed
in no chronologically ordered sequence. This made
the movie very, very confusing.
To make matters worse, the film breaks
every Asian supernatural rule. First off, a spirit,
unless it’s a demon and is known as a threat
to everyone, should not kill in public. Second,
ghosts cannot appear in the daytime, unless the

victim trapped in a dark creepy place. Lastly,
there is always a way to dispel a grudge, and if
there isn’t, the victims usually have something
in common with each other. The first movie
stuck to every one of these rules. Only people
who entered the haunted house died. In The
Grudge 2, anyone who meets someone that pays
a visit to the house dies, completely changing
the paranormal concept.
Furthermore, it introduces unnecessary characters and themes that do nothing for the story.
The Grudge 2 brings in Karen’s (Gellar) sister and
tries to explain why she wasn’t mentioned on The
Grudge. It does a poor job at this, and would have
been better off with introducing new characters
with no connection to its prequel.
Somewhere in the middle of the story, a
romantic relationship between Karen’s sister
and a detective begins to develop. Suddenly,
the detective dies. This does nothing for the
movie. It would have been better off without
the relationship.
The movie then, like the detective’s life, unexpectedly ends. The Grudge is free to spread and
affect whom ever it wishes, eventually ending the
human race. Sounds like The Ring? Yeah, exactly.
The Grudge 2 is superficial, lame and unoriginal.
— Dinh Nguyen

arts

FRIDAY, november 3, 2006

Threat Signal
Under Reprisal
redink Music

Sometimes you just have to pick
up a book or an album and take a
second look. Under Reprisal’s cover
art grabbed my eyes and I just
had to see if the lyrics and music
would be an equivalent feast to the
senses. This debut album exceeds
all expectations.
Jon Howard produces an amazing
range of vocals for a metal album.
Most incredible are his counter
points on “As I Destruct,” where he
sings counterpoint to each line, and
you would swear you were listening
to two different vocalists.
The powerful guitar work of
Kyle McKnight and Rich Howard
draw you in and keep you entrapped
as Jon Howard’s voice coil around
you, like a boa constrictor, growing
tighter and tighter. This music is
intense, powerful and a stunning
example of extreme metal.
It’s hard to believe, but they
even have an anti-violence song
called “One Last Breath,” where
they criticize violence in society
and how it will affect us all.
All the song’s are written by Kyle
McKnight, Jon Howard and occasionally with Rich Howard. The lyrics
are to some extent what you would
anticipate for a metal album.
The sound is reminiscent of
“Disturbed” or even early “Venom,” yet even though it sounds
familiar, the sound does have its
own unique undertones. Overall it
does set itself aside as a new sound
in a genre that is typically overly
predictable. The acoustic ending
to “Counterbalance” reminds one
of Creed or Nickleback on their
softer pieces.
All in all, I would have to say
that this album is something new

and intriguing in a genre that has
become stale. The album will not
disappoint any metal head in your
circle of friends. So give it a try.
— Steven R. McEvoy

Lamb of God
Sacrament
EPIC

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a bit
cheesed out by Lamb of God’s
image. I know this band fairly well,
and have always suspected that the
majority of their fanbase probably
beat their wives and pets.
I’m not a big fan of the middlefinger-in-the-air head-banger mentality to which future unemployment
collectors adapt to compensate for
their failure in the public school
system. That being said, some Lamb
of God tracks are on my iPod because I don’t let stereotypes (even
my own) stop me from enjoying
enjoyable music.
Lamb of God is good in small
doses, and deserve respect for really carrying the torch of quality
North American metal with their
shredding, double kick-drenched
tracks that demand your attention,
much like the ‘freckles’ around your
pubic area, but never loved any of
their records enough to warrant an
album purchase.
Sacrament, however, is great in
the sense that it managed to keep
my attention throughout its entire
duration. These are ferocious metal
tracks much like their back catalogue, but with a more prominent
influence from Swedish bands like
Soilwork or At the Gates — more
intricate guitar leads and thrash
drumming to add onto their tried
and tested formula of pounding
southern licks.
I won’t say this album is much
different from their old material,

but it just has a little extra of the
key elements that make Lamb of
God appealing to me — extra
heavy breakdowns, extra ferocious
screams, extra crazy guitar work
and even less-ridiculous lyrics. If
you don’t like heavy music, this
is not the record that is going to
make you shave your head and start
selling weed. On the other hand,
if you’re a fan (or fringe fan like
yours truly) of this band, give this
one a try for sure. This is metal at
its near-finest.

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songwriting and obviously a passion
that thankfully doesn’t cross the line
into Cheeseville. Think Death Cab
songs heavy on folk and country
influences — laid back music with
great vocals and poetic lyrics. Try
it if you like the aforementioned
O.C. darlings or even great singer/
songwriters like Ben Harper or Jack
Johnson. I honestly can’t see too
many people being disappointed
by Kevin Devine’s approach to
music at all.
— Andrew King

— Andrew King

Kevin Devine
Put Your Ghost to Rest
Capitol

I had a great time with this record.
Prior to this, I’ve never heard any
of Kevin Devine’s past material,
but was aware of his existence from
word of mouth. I wasn’t sure what
to expect with this album, but I was
so pleasantly surprised with how
good the first track was that I was
excited for more.
This CD is written and performed by an actual dude named
Kevin Devine, who is sometimes
joined by an accompanying band
with a stupid name. At first, I
thought this was a real shame, not
because the band necessarily spoils
any of the songs, but because the
tracks that really shine are those
with just an acoustic guitar and
soothing voice that overflow with
raw emotion and conviction.
I later realized that the additional
musicianship on this record didn’t
hinder the songs at all — they just
add the exact amount of ‘that little
something’ that gives these great
tracks some extra flavor for a longer
shelf life.
This is a fun record from start
to finish, full of extremely solid

Atlantis Hymns For Disco is a progressive hip-hop album that pushes the
definitions of what a regular rap
album should sound like. After
claiming he was leaving the music
industry for good after his debut
album, k-os has released his third
CD. The sounds have progressed
in different directions since his first
album, Exit.
The most impressive thing about
this new album is k-os’ ability to take
this new record and within the first
three songs flow from an old-school
hip-hop song, to a blues jam, to a
pop tune. The variety in this album
is refreshing. I suspect that hip-hop
fans will at first skip over songs like
“AquaCityBoy,” but not for long.
The sound is a bit rougher, more
distorted possibly, but there is no
denying that it is hip-hop.
There are several songs that have
an indie rock influence, especially
“Valhalla,” featuring Sam Roberts.
Guitars and rock inspired jams present a new layer to k-os’ music and
as rock fan these new sounds are
welcome addition to his songs.
Despite having several genres
on this album k-os still does not

ignore the type of music that he is
known for: the catchy hook based
conscious hip-hop song. Songs
like “flyPaper” and, the first single,
“Sunday Morning” will give people
the hits that they expect.
This album is not just restricted
to the hip-hop lover — it exists for
the music lover, period.
— Andre Ulloa

Muse
Black Holes and Revelations
Helium 3

Just when you thought contemporary rock had choked, spluttered and
died in its own bile of corporate
bubblegum pandering and Nickelbackian monotony, Muse refuses to
give up the ghost.
In Black Holes and Revelations, the
English rock band’s fourth album, a
deceptively simple drum line fronts
for an urgent set of synth samplings,
the occasional Latino riff or orchestral sound and equally haunting male
vocals. Nothing exists, the band
seems to say, that cannot be made
out as truly epic.
From the very classic, even
Elvis-esque intimacy of tracks like
“Soldier’s Poem,” to the heart-rending, end-of-the-world solidarity
epitomized in “Knights of Cydonia” (which features lasers, power
guitar lines and horses — horses, for
god’s sake; need I say more?), Muse
doesn’t just demand empowerment
from its listeners: the band takes
your head in its hands and forces you
to nod along until you remember
what the whole goddamn point of
the genre was to begin with.
Nothing less, ladies and gentlemen, than the desperate, devil-maycare quest for as much immortality
as our puny little lives can handle.
— Margaret Clark

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arts

FRIDAY, november 3, 2006

25

“Bboying” a break from the routine
UW Breakers keep the dance form alive and well, competitively and for fun, in the Student Life Centre
Margaret Clark
arts editor

It’s Friday evening. With the week’s
classes winding down, most students
are heading home to relax or start on
their homework — but not the UW
Breakers, University of Waterloo’s
breakdancing club. Meeting every
Friday at 8:30 p.m. in the Student Life
Centre, the crew works the Atrium
floor outside Campus Cove until as
late as 2 a.m., honing their dance skills
for competition and for kicks.
Breakdancing, or “bboying” (beeboh-ing) as it’s called among practitioners, is commonly confused with
hip-hop, a term that actually refers
to the whole culture. Bboying is just
one part of this culture, the other
three main elements being graffiti,
MCing and DJing.
Originating in the late ’70s,
bboying owes its development to a
wide range of sources. Music-wise,
the sounds and stylings of James
Brown’s “Stay-on-the-Good-Foot”
funk have had a profound and lasting
impact on the form, while martial
arts like capoeira and kung fu inspired whole generations of young
bboyers to expand their repertoire.
Gymnastics moves, tap-dance and
salsa also contributed to the development of bboying, while hip-hop in
general has gang ties through groups
like Afrika Bambaataa and later Zulu
Nation, which used DJing and MCing
jams to gain street cred and exercise
gang power.
Today, however, when bboyers get
together, it’s for the love of the form.
“Ultimately you do it for yourself,”
Jimmy Shin, president of the UW
Breakers, explained, “not to show
off.” But a great many misconceptions still exist about the art form,
especially where its history and
content are concerned.
Shin especially noted that people
often think of bboying as just being
about the big “power” moves — the
windmills, the flares, the helicopters
— when really the form is so technical that everything, from top rock (a
kind of introductory dance)
to freezes to nuanced
footwork, is of
equal importance
and merit.
Christopher
Chan, the UW
Breakers’ “resident popper,”
also added that
“popping” is
a distinct style
people often
confuse with
regular bboying.
Ta k i n g i t s
name from the
visual image created by the
dance (that of one’s body
“popping” at its joints),
popping is an umbrella term
that includes such stylistic
moves as “Tutting” (think
the song “Walk Like An Egyptian”), “Old Man,” “Boogaloo”
and “Popping” itself. Michael
Jackson is one of the better
examples of a famous popper,
though with all these distinctions
the UW Breakers can understand
how new members might get them
all confused.
“People come out at the beginning
of the term thinking they’re going to

courtesy Jimmy Shin

Part breakdancing jam, part serious competition, last year’s Ground FX gathered bboyers from across Ontario and even the U.S.
learn how to windmill in a week,” said
Cyrus Chan, UW Breakers vice-president, “but it’s a steep learning curve.
That’s why we don’t charge for the club.
We don’t want people to pay, come out
for a couple weeks and then realize it’s
not for them. We like having an open,
relaxed atmosphere where anyone can
stop by and join in.”
UW Breaker John Yau said he is
especially excited about Ground FX,
where he will be taking part in his
first large battle with teammate Victor Cheng. Cheng added that he was
looking forward to this year’s Ground
FX, a bboying competition hosted
at UW, “because it’s a really positive
atmosphere. Everyone’s just there to
have fun. It’s not all about competing;
mostly we just want to dance.”
In fact, when Ground FX started
in 2000, it was originally just a jam session. Only in 2003 did the gathering
take on a competition format,
which in turn changes year
by year.
This year, Shin is proud
to announce that Ground
FX, the province-wide event
taking place on November 24,
2006, and which is even expected
to pull bboyers up from the
US, will also be free of charge.
Shin believes this change will
exemplify the whole spirit of
their organization — which
makes sense since the UW
Breakers’ very mission
statement states that the
club seeks to provide “a
fun, friendly and safe environment where [...]
members of all skill
level[s] can learn
and practise
breakdancing.”
Bboyer
David Khuu
added that he’d
Christine ogley
been dabbling
in the form since grade nine (all the
UW Breakers in attendance traced
their bboying roots to high school),
but that the environment offered by
the UW Breakers was a great place
to sharpen his skills.

“My favourite move is the air
flare,” he said with a sheepish grin.
“I can’t do it yet, but I know I’ll get
it someday.”
As for veterans of the form, they
confess that bboying quickly becomes
a way of life. “It doesn’t end for us
after we go home,” said Shin. “We’re
thinking about it all the time. We
spend hours daydreaming new moves,
watching performance videos and
thinking to ourselves, ‘Hey, that would
be a really cool thing to try.’”

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“They don’t always work out in
practice,” Cyrus Chan added with
a laugh. “But that’s part of the fun.
We’re just always coming up with
new ideas and testing them out, seeing what we come up with. There’s a
lot of freedom with bboying, if you
know how to use it.”
Members of the UW Breakers
also schedule impromptu sessions
throughout the week, using their
online forum (http://p201.ezboard.
com/buniversityofwaterloobreak-

danceclub) to keep in touch, and
they welcome the opportunity to
introduce new members to the basics
of the form — starting with moves
like six-step and basic top rock.
After that, it might well be said
that there are as many distinct bboying styles as there are bboyers — so
if you’re milling about the SLC late
Friday night, consider taking the time
to discover your own.
mclark@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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Carbon trading creates corporate loophole
While wealthy countries continue to increase their emissions, others must reduce their load to make up for it
could increase to $25 billion.
Most of this money will be made by trading
between firms, brokers and banks. In fact, the
With global warming increasing in priority as an bank’s carbon finance fund increased from $415
environmental issue, industrialized countries must million in 2004 to $915 million in the past year, and
now comply with the Kyoto treaty and reduce these figures are certainly relative to the amount
their greenhouse emissions by roughly 5.2 per of carbon in question. In 2004 alone, 107 million
cent between 2008 to 2012. Yet, while the treaty, metric tons of carbon dioxide had been exchanged
which came into effect in February 2005, speci- — a 38 per cent increase from 2003.
Carbon trading is largely done in one of two
fies the importance of reducing the planet’s total
greenhouse gas emissions, it acknowledges that ways: either through a cap-and-trade scheme or
the origins of this pollution is irrelevant. This, by issuing credits. The first requires emissions to
in turn, has sparked interest in carbon trading be limited before trading and is the largest companies-based scheme around, involving 12,000
— especially from heavy polluters.
Carbon dioxide, a chemical emitted largely sites across 25 European Union member states
during the burning of fossil fuels, has been rec- in compliance with the Kyoto treaty. The second
ognized as the most influential greenhouse gas in way of treating carbon is by using credits to compensate for emissions.
terms of global warming
In this sense, more
— representing more
developed countries can
than 70 per cent of
Thus, carbon trading
finance projects based
all greenhouse gases.
in developing countries
Thus, carbon trading is
is a practice allowing
and receive emissions
a practice allowing countries and companies to countries and companies credits in return.
Unfortunately, the
continue polluting and,
to continue polluting
greenhouse gas issues
in turn, pay others to
are not being taken
reduce their emissions
and, in turn, pay
seriously by all countries
output.
others to reduce their
— including the US and
While the Kyoto
Canada. The US govprotocol is the first of its
emissions output.
ernment decided not to
kind to combine global
comply with the rules of
trading techniques with
Kyoto. The US has been
the issues of greenhouse
gases, carbon trading is far from being a new idea. officially deemed the world’s largest CO2 polluter
The U.S. traded sulphur dioxide and nitrous oxide and, by refusing to ratify Kyoto’s standards, they
to tackle acid rain during the ’70s. Additionally, the could be rendering the system ineffective: tradEuropean Union has been varying national and ing only works if greenhouse gases are reduced
local allowances for ecological production in dairy enough to counterbalance global warming.
Canada hasn’t been doing much better. As
production and fishery catches for some time.
However, the market for carbon trading is in was mentioned in the October 13, 2006 issue of
itself a fairly new practice — and one that is fast Imprint, the federal government has stated that
expanding. The World Bank, which acts as a major Canada will not meet the requirements of the
instigator in carbon financing, has estimated the international agreement to reduce emissions by
value of carbon traded in 2005 to be about $10 six per cent compared to 1990 levels between
billion and believes its potential within the market 2008 and 2012.
Rachel McNeil

staff reporter

Christine ogley

Global carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning, 1751 - 2003. With data from
the Earth Policy Institute, based on WorldWatch, ORNL, BP figures.
Carbon trading critics argue that the system may
as well be considered ineffective anyway because
the CO2 ceilings are far too high to implement any
change. Though acknowledging global warming
issues, they say Kyoto fails to take the intense actions required and to emphasize the immediate
need to move away from fossil fuels towards more
environmentally-friendly renewable energies.

Meanwhile, critics must agree that although
programs like Kyoto aid in creating global awareness around such issues, more strict programs
will certainly have to be implemented before
efforts to reduce greenhouse gases can be
considered effective.
ramcneil@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Fill the bag, not the environment, a new BYOB approach
A consumer-driven initiative toward reusable grocery bags will ease the plastic chokehold on our environment

There are anywhere between 500 billion to 1
trillion plastic bags consumed every year. And I
believe it. I work in a health food store and I am
shocked at how many people don’t remember
their reusable bags. But then, of course, there
are the customers that always remember and
even re-use old bread bags for their bulk flour
and oat purchases.
A person’s use of a plastic check-out bag can
sometimes be counted in minutes — however
long it takes to get groceries from the shops
to their homes. These bags, however, can last
for hundreds of years in a landfill when not
recycled. Overall, plastic bags are bad for the
environment.
Most are made of polypropylene, a byproduct
of oil refining. There is an emerging science of
manufacturing “plastic bags” from corn starch
and soy, but I have yet to come across any stores
that carry them. Also, most plastic bags are made
in China and then shipped all over the world,
consuming even more fossil fuels.

In the marine environment, plastic bag lit- are heavier and larger than plastic, paper bags
ter is lethal, killing thousands of sea creatures produce more carbon emissions from the added
every year. Sea turtles mistake plastic bags for transport they require.
jellyfish and then die of starvation because the
It’s obvious for an environmentalist to rant
plastic blocks their stomach. In 2002, a whale about the importance of using reusable bags,
washed up on a beach
but they’re so much
at Normandy and was
more. In addition to
found to have 800
the environIn addition to helping the helping
grams of plastic and
ment, reusable bags
other packaging in its
are kinder to hands
environment, reusable
stomachs.
and fingers, can hold
bags are kinder to hands
In cities, they litter
twice as many items
the sides of highways,
conventional plasand fingers, can hold twice as
allow for stagnant watic bags and have
ter-breeding grounds
handle straps that can
as many items as
for mosquitoes to
go over the shoulpopulate your neighder, leaving both
plastic bags and have
bourhood and largely
hands free. They
handle straps that can go can carry more and
contribute to the city
dump. In the urban
will not burst under
over the shoulder
environment they’re a
the weight of heavy
pain in the ass. Just ask
items. They’re inexBangladesh. In 2002
pensive and can be
the city reduced the number of plastic bags washed and used for years. Furthermore, reususe after drains blocked by bags contributed to able bags can actually be quite fashionable.
widespread monsoon flooding in 1998.
I was visiting Sydney in Fall 2004 and a most
At the grocery store you’re often offered interesting fashion phenomenon was taking
the paper alternative to plastic. Although the hold all classes of society in the city — rich or
paper bag is recyclable and decomposes rather poor, young or old: the same bright green bag
quickly, it’s still not good enough. Making pa- was seen everywhere. This reusable bag was the
per bags uses even more trees and since they tangible product of the campaign to cut plastic

bag use put on by the Australian Government
in partnership Australia’s largest grocery chain,
Woolworths. By the end of 2004, five million
green bags were sold nationwide at $0.99 a piece.
Although the store continued to provide free
plastic bags, forgetting to bring your green bag
would result in a look of disapproval from the
clerk, which is almost as scary as those judgmental girls you knew in high school.
There was some controversy over the
green bag campaign since they were made
using woven plastic fibers — the argument
being that the green bag was just a scam for
the grocery stores to make money. But environmentalists countered that green bags are
a better option because they can be reused
for up to two years, after which they can be
recycled. Mine is almost two years old and
still going strong.
So the next time you go for groceries or errands, don’t forget to BYOB (Bring Your Own
Bags). If you’re in a pinch, using the odd bag
is all right, just so long as you re-use or recycle
it. And remember, when using a plastic bag
as waste liner, make sure you fully fill the bag
before throwing it away.
As always, please visit my blog www.sustainablesteps.blogspot.com for additional information and previous Imprint columns.
tgarland@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

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science

FRIDAY, november 3, 2006

Genome reveals nature of bee’s complexities
Ann Oni Mas
reporter

Bees possess a complex social structure that is a
manifestation of its genetic code. Uncountable
years of evolution have resulted in a complex
genome producing abilities such as colour recognition, scent, shape distinction and navigation
based on the reward of food. The complexity
of this behaviour astounds scientists because the
bee’s neurosystem contains a hundred thousand
times fewer neurons than human brains and only
four times more than a fruit fly’s — and the fly
possesses no organized society. Bees display
behaviours that are unseen in insects of similar
complexity such as the “dance language” used
to announce the discovery of new food and
the ability to understand abstract concepts like
“same” and “different.”
The article “Insights into Social Insects from
the Genome of the Honeybee Apis mellifera”
appeared in the October 26 issue of Nature. The

National Human Genome Research Institute and times longer than her subjects. She also has other
the National Institute of Health published the unique traits like laying eggs and storing sperm for
genome sequence and as a result many of the years without any decrease in their reproductive
characteristics of the
potential.
bee’s society that can
Current research
be predicted by genetbeing done by the
The bee genome is
ics. The hierarchical
National Human
society stratified into
Genome Research
an oddity because it is
queen and subjects is
Institute and the Nacalled a “eusociety.” more similar to vertebrate tional Institutes of
The societies are comHealth has revealed
posed of not only a
many unique aspects
genomes then those of
queen but also “nonof the genome. The
close evolutionary
reproductive altruisbee’s genome has very
tic offspring.” These
few transposons that
relatives likes fruitflies
workers care for young,
are common in most
gather food, build hives
eukaryotic cells. The
and mosquitoes
and defend the colony.
genome’s lack of extra
The activity of differsequences might be
ent genes creates bees
the cause of the very
with vastly different sizes, behaviour, physiology slow rate of evolution. The composition of genes
and even lifespan. The queen can live up to ten in bees is unlike other insects as the bee genome

contains very few genes for toxin resistance,
cuticle-forming proteins and gustatory receptors. However, it has many genes that are very
similar to those of vertebrate genomes, such as
odorant receptors. The bee genome is an oddity
because it is more similar to vertebrate genomes
than those of close evolutionary relatives like
fruitflies and mosquitoes.
The most important finding might be the
discovery of the root of the Africanized killer
bee. This bee possesses a chromosome that has
been replaced in most of the widespread populations of bees. This chromosome is unique to
just these bees and a previously dominant form
of bee known as A. m. scutellata.
The new found knowledge of bees represents
and leap in the knowledge of invertebrate species and there evolutionary relationship to us
and other insects. There are also the benefit for
widespread gain as bee are the major pollinating species on the plant and their relationship
is integral to agriculture.

New element discovered in blood
flow control of the brain
Faisal Naqib
staff reporter

Scientists have discovered a cell that is responsible for fine-tuning the blood flow in neural
tissue at the capillary level: the pericyte.
It has been known for quite some time that
an increase in local neural activity will increase
local blood flow. This is a result of the neural
tissue attempting to precisely regulate blood
flow; it matches the metabolic rate of certain
neural tissue with the delivery rate of oxygen
and nutrients. This is the principle behind
many imaging techniques that monitor the
activity of the brain.
Blood is supplied to the head via several
major arteries. These vessels decrease in diameter as they penetrate deeper into the brain.
The arteries branch into smaller arterioles,
which branch into the smallest vasculature:
the capillaries.
Capillaries are narrow tubes with walls
made from a single layer of endothelial cells.
Capillaries have such a small diameter that red
blood cells must pass through in single file.
It is known that blood flow is regulated by
pre-capillary arterioles, which have smooth
muscle lining them, allowing them to constrict
and dilate. However, this cannot be the only
form of control over blood flow, seeing as
the majority of neurons responsible for blood

flow control terminate at the capillaries, as well
as the fact that signals to modify blood flow
propagate from the capillaries as well. These
observations point to the capillary being the
primary regulator of blood flow.
This has puzzled scientists since capillaries lack any form of smooth muscle to
assist in varying the diameter of the vessels.
The solution to this puzzle was found in
pericytes. These cells are spaced at regular
intervals along the capillaries and occur at
capillary junctions. Each pericyte extends long
processes around its nearby capillary which
allows it to control the blood flow through
the vessel. Since capillaries force red blood
cells to pass through in single file, a small
decrease in their diameter could completely
occlude the flow of red blood cells. This allows the pericyte to vary blood flow instead
of requiring a continuous sheath of smooth
muscle to do the job. Researchers were able to
constrict and dilate capillaries by electrically
and chemically stimulating the pericytes.
The discovery of pericyte involvement
in the regulation of neural blood flow takes
us one step closer to the ultimate goal of
understanding the hierarchy of cerebral
blood flow control by the different vascular
elements.
fnaqib@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

science

FRIDAY, novermber 3, 2006

Transgenic trees face ironic foe
David Judah
reporter

For years, people have been looking
into the genetics of trees, especially
the poplar, in order to discover ways
to make more effective crops for the
paper, construction and biofuel industries. This is usually done through
the creation of transgenic trees, a type
of plant with the genes from other
plants. These plants can possess traits
like disease resistance, faster growth
or any number of other features not
found in their naturally occurring
counterparts.
In 2001 however, science had a very
bad year when it came to research on
the inner working of trees. That year, a
poplar researcher by the name of Steve
Strauss lost 800 young transgenic trees
when eco-activists snuck into his facility
and killed the entire crop. Also that year,
an even more striking attack was made
when two women, Lacey Phillabaum
and Jennifer Kolar, immolated a University of Washington horticulture centre.
Their attack costing a total of $7 million
in damages and years of research. All
this was punctuated by yet another act of
eco-terrorism three years earlier in 1998
when a research station specializing in
developing ways to protect trees from
parasites was razed by a small group of
eco-terrorists. The group involved, the
Environmental Liberation Front (ELF),
has claimed responsibility for literally
hundreds of such acts.
But why were these, and so many
other attacks, made against something
as innocuous as a poplar tree? There

Basma Anabtawi
reporter

British army tests zombie pills

A new drug being tested on the
military is causing a lot of controversy. The new pills, which are
often referred to as “zombies,” are
able to increase mental and physical
alertness without the need to sleep.
The zombies consist of a drug called
Modafinil, which was originally meant
to treat a rare sleeping disorder,
narcolepsy.
The drug works by “turning off ”
a person’s need to sleep while still
keeping fully alert. The effect of the
pills can last for several days, which is
the main concern of the Science and
Technology Committee. This type of
drug could be abused if it were to fall
into the public hands. The target users
of the drug are exhausted students
and keen clubbers.
The Modafinil pills were prescribed
and transferred in huge quantities to
the American troops in Iraq during the
war; however they were never used or
approved by the Ministry of Defence
due to the many ethical issues and
possible side effects. According to the
Defence Research Agency, Modafinil
has been tested on a number of British
soldiers but has yet to be approved for
frequent use.
Crushing pills and the fatal
consequences

alternative methods. A scientific research group headed by pharmacists
and lawyers is now concluding that
crushing pills can cause very serious
side effects that could harm the body
and can sometimes even be fatal.
Most pills require a special coating
layer in order to control the rate of
release of the medicine into the body.
When the pills are crushed, however,
the rate of release is disturbed which
can cause many dangerous side effects.
The most common crushed drugs are
Tamoxifen and morphine which are
prescribed for breast cancer and recurring migraines, respectively. Some of
the possible side effects are dizziness
and headaches, as well as increased risk
of stroke and heart attack.
Experts are now advising purchasing the same medicine in a different
form, such as a liquid or a patch.
The vast majority of drugs offered
at pharmacies can be pre-ordered in
these alternative forms to make them
easier to swallow without the need
to crush the pills.
New hope in developmental
biology

A branch of truth
— Two mature trees provide
enough oxygen for a family of 4.
— Trees make excellent noise
barriers, making cities and neighbourhoods quieter.
— Trees prevent city flooding by
catching raindrops and offsetting
runoff caused by buildings and
parking lots.
— Trees are the longest and largest
living organisms on Earth.
— In 50 years, one tree recycles
more than $37,000 worth of water,
provides $31,000 worth of erosion
control, $62,000 worth of air pollution control and produces $37,000
worth of oxygen.
— One person causes about 10
tons of carbon dioxide to be emitted per year. One tree removes
about one ton of CO2 per year.
Planting 30 trees per person will
remove each that person’s carbon
debt for the year.

the human body. However, in diabetes
patients these cells seem to have very
low efficiency or in some cases no
productivity whatsoever.
According to new research, biologists are now able to specialize and
grow stem cells into pancreatic cells
with the use of growth factors present
in the placenta of a pregnant mother.
However, much research is still needed
to learn the potentials and capabilities
of these cells before being able to use
them on real life patients.
Urgency turns hotel in Panama
into a frog sanctuary

A small luxury hotel in El Valle de
Anton, Panama, Hotel Campestre, has
been transformed into an endangered
frog zoo. The frogs, which are considered a national treasure, have taken
up residence in the hotel while hiding
from a vicious fungus. The Chytrid
fungus has already wiped out over
120 species of amphibians in Central
America. The dangerous fungus has
been migrating south of the equator
and has finally reached Panama.
Hotel Campestre has become the
frogs’ last hope for survival since the
fungus has not been able to reach it
due to its location down in the valleys.
Hundreds of biologists have travelled
to Panama to help with the hotel’s
transformation. The fungus causes
breathing problems in the frogs since
it invades their integumentary system
and suffocates them slowly. Due to
the huge efforts of the dedicated
scientists, over 40 species of amphibians have been collected and placed in
the hotel to attempt to preserve them
and avoid their extinction.

In a time when AMD has overtaken
Intel, Macs have taken over PC’s and
graphics have become the biggest
promoting factor of anything that is
technology, we have a merger.
It was almost half a year ago
that ATI and AMD merged. AMD
originally toyed with the idea of buying
ATI — an idea which later became a
necessity, and soon after official on
July 24 of this year.
A Central Processing Unit (CPU)
and a Graphical Processing Unit
(GPU) in one, a concept almost forgotten, has now returned. But what
does it all mean?
The CPU is the core of a computer. This, in older times, used to
come hand-in-hand with a GPU. This
led to what was and is still known
as an on-board video card. Almost
all Intel motherboards, now come
with an AGP or PCI-E slot for an
external card.
I think the combination of ATI’s
video card with the AMD Cool ‘n’
Quiet chips would not only nullify the
competition, but would completely
revolutionize the industry. Thanks
to their exceptional concentrations,
ATI and AMD can come together
and make a CPU that’s capable of
handling many GPU tasks. Instead

Evolutionary bee fossils

of offloading graphical functions to
a video card, (which then has to be
piped back to the CPU for additional
computation), many things can be done
on-board, saving time and resources
for your computer. These CPU/GPU
hybrids, codenamed Fusion, aren’t
going to be available until late 2008 or
early 2009, so whatever you purchase
now should be safe from becoming
obsolete until then.
Based in Sunnyvale, California,
with centers around the world, the
new company will be an employer of
approximately 14,900 employees. This
transaction breaks new ground for both
companies and is expected to provide
increased customer benefits. As a combined company, ATI and AMD intend
to develop commercial platforms that
deliver simplicity, stability and manageability in graphics and mobile environments. Future users will look forward
to advanced mobile computing through
integrated platforms that are designed
to extend battery life while optimizing
graphics and media processing.
This merge was meant to empower
users to experience rich and immersive
digital entertainment across multiple
consumer devices. Their compatibility with PC’s, handhelds and digital
televisions will finally deliver highlyintegrated, low-cost and power-efficient solutions to meet the expanding
demands of billions of new users in
emerging markets.
The bottom-line, I believe Intel and
Nvidia will need to distinguish themselves soon — or fall to Fusion.
— Gautam Khanna

New passports with biometric
technology

Scientists have discovered a new
fossil of a species of bee dating
back 100 million years. The bee is
the oldest fossil in its family to be
identified. Experts believe that the
ancient insect relates to both wasps
and bees due to its shared features,
which further proves current bee
evolution theories. The bee specimen was found in preserved mine
amber located in Hukawng Valley
of Northern Burma and the official
scientific name of the bee is Melittosphex burmensis.
According to research concerning
bee species in general, scientists are
now finding many similarities and
collateral biological cycles between
bee and mammal lineages. These
new theories concerning the linkage
between the two are now arising due
to having sequenced bee DNA which
has shown many similarities between
the genomes. The research is quite
fascinating with regard to predicting
common ancestry between small insects such as bees and large complex
mammals such as humans.

New United States passport regulations are officially in place as of October 26, 2006. All passports issued
in Visa Waiver Program countries
will be required to contain biometric
data. Biometric communication uses
computer technology to identify
a person using their physical and
behavioral traits. The need for such
extreme measures has increased due
to the high demand of security for
international, business and personal
travellers.
Biometric passports use much
more than the current passport picture for identification. They require
fingerprint, eye and face maps of
each traveller as recognition features.
These highly developed passports
will aid in preventing fraud as well
as preventing terrorism. Some of
the main countries using this new
technology are France, Germany,
Singapore and the UK.
— With files from BBC News, Washington Post and Scientific American

A new method which relies on following the pathways of embryonic
development could lead to advanced
approaches in treating diabetes. Embryonic stem cells act as the basis of
medical research today, due to their
ability to replace all types of damaged
and dying tissues.
Stem cells are important for diabetes patients as a substiture for their
pancreatic cells which have stopped
functioning properly. Pancreatic Beta
cells are the main insulin producers in

Processor, meet graphics

Benjamin

According to new research, people
who crush their pills to make them
easier to swallow may have to seek

are many answers ranging from the
protection of ecosystems to the purging of agriculture from the face of
the Earth. The main argument against
transgenics is that they can change the
environments around them. Although
the trees are designed to be sterile for
copyright and environmental reasons,
some still believe they may become
invasive to the surrounding landscape.
This would especially be a concern if
the trees were designed to have traits
that would make them more effective
than their natural cousins, like pest resistance or faster growth. Another more
likely, albeit still outlandish, threat is that
pollen from the trees could interbreed
with other trees, effectively poisoning
the “natural” gene pool with foreign
genetic material.
Ironically, transgenic trees were
designed not as a way of creating a
new crop for humanity to farm but to
remove some of the burden on natural
ecosystems caused by logging. With
that in mind, the acts of eco-terrorism
against tree research seems counterproductive to anyone’s goals.
Ultimately, it seems groups like
ELF will have to admit defeat in this
battle. Recently, the two women responsible for the University of Washington
bombing were arrested. Also in recent
news, the completion of the Poplar
Genome Project promises huge leaps
in humanity’s ability to modify poplar
physiology. That, and evolution trends
to make preserving a steady state in any
environment next to impossible, regardless of human activity. But at least their
heart was in the right place, right?

In first snow and then rain a biting
wind blew straight off Columbia Lake
to Kendra Cook’s back as she lined
up a penalty kick from a few yards in
front of the 22 metre line. The score
was 0-0 and despite Waterloo’s dominance throughout the game there was
tension up and down the line.
The fans were yelling at the ref
through a megaphone and the Warriors in black were lined up across the
field from the Marauders in red and
white who were shivering and stomping their feet to fend off the cold.
Cook didn’t seem to notice — her
kick split the upright with plenty
to spare. The Warrior defence held
the rest of the game and Waterloo
defeated McMaster 3-0 to win OUA
Bronze and earn the sixth and final
spot at the Nationals in London
November 3 to 5.
Waterloo dominated the game.
The defence was impeccable. Mac
made it down to the two metre line
once; the Waterloo line held tough.
The rest of the game was played in
the McMaster half. Every time a Marauder touched the ball two Warriors
would smash into her and the ball
would be down. On offence, Waterloo
pushed Mac deep, over and over, until
a dropped ball or a girl’s foot sliding
out from her would turn it over and
Mac would kick it out.
The skies rained wet snow; my
hands froze, holding the umbrella.
These girls were wearing shorts and
long sleeves pulled over their hands
between plays and they were covered

in mud. The field was mud; the brown
patches we saw weeks ago grew to
cover the field. Bodies were falling
everywhere. Injuries began to slow
the play, the first all Marauders. The
girls on the field huddled up in two
circles and jumped up and down to
keep warm. On the hill over Columbia
Field, we huddled behind our umbrellas and the guys with a megaphone
yelled “get her off the field.” When
the play would start it was slow at first,
like sap frozen to bark, but when the
blood got flowing the pace picked up
and Waterloo dominated some more
without score until Cook’s penalty
kick gave them three points and the
win. Unfortunately, right near the
end of the game Nicola Holmes,
Waterloo’s scrum back went down
with a knee injury. Her status is dayto-day for the Nationals. “We have
confidence in our bench,” coach
Ciezar said. “Judy Fung is a good
scrum back.”
The captains Sam Kristopherson
and Dianne Kelly echoed each
other after the game. “We knew
McMaster would be a really tough
team coming into this,” Kelly said,
“But we’ve worked really hard and
I guess we just wanted it more than
they did.”
“The weather was a contributing
factor,” Kristopherson said, “although I find we’re one of the better
teams playing in those conditions;
we seem to have better ball control
in crappy weather.” As a testament,
every game I’ve seen has been the
most miserable afternoon. Snow, rain,
wind, hail, sun and biting cold—the
Warriors have played in it all.

“The weather again affected our
running game” Coach Ciezar said.
“It became sloppy, with more little
mistakes.”
In the OUA gold medal match,
Guelph upset Western 7-5 in similar
conditions to snap Western’s 29-game
winning streak and take the number
one seed at the Nationals. Western,
as the host, picked their division in
the tournament. They chose to avoid
Guelph in the round-robin and go into
group B with Lethbridge and the winner of McGill vs Laval. Waterloo goes
into the tournament as the sixth seed,
in group A with Guelph and SFXU,
the Eastern Canadian champion.
“These will be two really tough
matches,” Kristopherson said.
“Guelph will be a tight game. We’ve
played them twice now, they’re really
strong, but we know what to expect
so we can use that to our advantage.
As for SFXU, we know they have a
really fast back, who we played with
in Ontario’s, so we’ve been talking of
ways to contain her, bringing wingers
back to strengthen the line.”
Two teams advance from each
group to the semi-finals on Saturday, with the two third-place squads
playing for fifth on Saturday. The
Gold and Bronze medal games are
Sunday. “With the shorter halves in
the round robin (25-minute half) we
know we can be competitive,” coach
Ciezar said. “With our good pack and
disciplined backs, our objective is to
make the medal round.”
Kristopherson did her coach one up.
“I expect to be top three,” she said.
sbell@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

The Guelph Gryphons are a scrappy
bunch. Veterans Shannon Kane, Michelle Gauer and Meg Howat are their
main offensive weapons, combining
for 58 points on tries and converts
between the three of them. With a
regular season record of 4-1, all of
their wins coming on shut-outs, the
Gryphons avenged their one defeat
in the Ontario final when they upset
Western 7-5, ending the Mustangs’
29-game winning streak. They’ll look
for a repeat performance in London
in hopes of improving upon last year’s
CIS bronze medal.

The St. FX X-Women dominated
the AUS championship game 33-5
against the UPEI Panthers on Oct. 28.
The school is now just one Atlantic
title away from possessing a decade’s
worth of AUS final victories. Wrapping up an undefeated season with
their ninth championship in a row is
the perfect way for the X-Women to
roll into nationals. The squad is led
by the first-ever player to be named
the conference’s top rookie and top
player in the same season, 18-year-old
Ghislaine Landry, who led the CIS in
scoring with 19 tries.

Laval Rouge et Or
2006 record: 5-0
Playoffs: 2-0
Nationals trip: First
Medals: None
TheLavalRougeetOrcouldn’tgetenough
of McGill this season. Last Sunday’s Quebecfinalwascalledduetodarknesswiththe
teams tied 5-5 after regulation and wasn’t
completed until Tuesday night. Neither
team scored in two 10-minute overtime
sessions until Laval’s Catherine Carrier
booted the winning penalty kick to send
the Rouge et Or to their first women’s
rugby nationals in the program’s second
year. Laval ended the Martlets’ 56-game
undefeated streak against conference opponents. The Rouge et Or will enter the
tournament as underdogs, especially with
12 hours to drive before Nationals’ four
games in three afternoons.
Dan Plouffe, CUP
Montreal, QC

Lethbridge Pronghorns
2006 record: No regular season
Playoffs: 3-1
Nationals trip: Second
Medals: 1 slv
The Lethbridge rugby team has has
caught the attention of Pronghorn fans
everywhere for being the school’s only
team to make it to a CIS national championship in over a decade. Although
Canada-West has no regular season,
the Pronghorns have managed to
prepare themselves for national calibre
competition through exhibition games
and tournaments. They defeated UBC
and two other teams in the CW playoffs
two weekends ago for the conference
title. The key to the Pronghorns’ success is the same as the motto they’ve
followed all year: practice and play like
champions every single day.
Ainsley Doty, The Meliorist
Lethbridge, AB

Group B

Lethbridge Pronghorns
Laval Rouge et Or
Western Mustangs

Western Ontario Mustangs
2006 record: 5-0
Playoffs: 1-1
Nationals trip: Fifth
Medals: 2 gld, 1 slv, 1 brz
Boasting an overall record of 6-1,
the Western Mustangs are ready
to go with standout players Tanja
Ness, LaToya Blackwood and Martha
Goodrow. Western is set to defend
its national title as the team will try
to establish its speed on the field
with perhaps the deepest roster in
the country. Speed on the wings,
strong backs, and more-than-capable
reserves highlight this year’s Mustangs
team. With home field advantage in
their corner, the Stangs want to send
a message to the rest of the country:
the title stays in London.
Len Cabelles, The Gazette
London, ON

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FRIDAY, november 3, 2006

Warrior men split weekend games

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In the big leagues - Maple Leafs
Nate Bell
reporter

The week of October 24 started off disastrously for the Toronto Maple Leafs. They
hosted Ottawa and were embarrassed 6-2.
Two days later, the Leafs traveled to Ottawa to
complete the home and home. They allowed
Jason Spezza and Joe Corvo to each tally five
points en route to a 7-2 defeat. The Leafs

showed some resiliency when they bounced
back with a 5-4 shootout win over Montreal
and a decisive 4-2 victory over the Atlanta
Thrashers. The Leafs look like a team that
will struggle to stay in the playoff picture
when the season gets into full swing if they
cannot gain some consistency. Pavel Kubina
and Nick Antropov are on the mend while
Tomas Kaberle has been on a tear with four
goals this week.

The Waterloo Warriors men’s hockey team hosted
a pair of games on the weekend and came away
with a win and a loss.
On Friday, October 27, the Warriors hosted
the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks and both teams
came out firing offensively.
The Golden Hawks jumped out to an early
2-0 lead less than eight minutes into the game
but the Warriors fought back.
Frank Fazio and David Edgeworth beat Laurier
goalie Mike Thomson less than two minutes apart
to tie the game for Waterloo midway through the
period.
However, the explosive first period continued as the Golden Hawks’ power play
would strike twice before the end of the
opening frame giving them a 4-2 lead at the
intermission.
Just 41 seconds into the second period, the WLU
power play connected as Ryan Courtney scored his
second goal of the game to make it 5-2.
On the power play Waterloo once again fought
back, this time closing within one thanks to goals
by Chris Golem and Edgeworth’s second.
Laurier pulled away again with two late goals
in the period, and heading into the third it was
7-4 in favour of the Golden Hawks.
Waterloo struck twice in the third period, but
Courtney’s hat trick goal put the game out of

Jim Hagan

reach as the Golden Hawks came away with an
8-6 victory.
UW goal scorers in the final period were Ryan
MacGregor and Dave Philpott.
The difference in the game was the execution
of Laurier’s power play, which scored four of the
team’s eight goals of the night.
The following night the Warriors hosted the
Guelph Gryphons. Once again UW scored six
goals, this time with a much better result.
Rookie goaltender Jimmy Bernier was given his
first start as a Warrior and he responded by making
24 saves for the shutout in the 6-0 win.
Despite the lopsided final score, Guelph was
able to keep it close through the first two periods.
A first period goal by Shane Hart and a second
period marker by Golem were the only scoring
in the opening 40 minutes.
Waterloo then exploded offensively, scoring
four goals in the first eight minutes of the third
period to run away with the game.
The goals came off the sticks of Kyle Pellerin,
Hart with his second of the game, and Golem
with two more to complete the hat trick.
Edgeworth, Philpott and Sean Roche each had
two assists on the night.
The 1-1 weekend leaves the Warriors record at
4-2, good for a share of first place in the Far West
Division with Lakehead.
This weekend UW hosts the Brock Badgers on
Friday night at 7:30 at the CIF arena and then travel
to Toronto to take on the York Lions Saturday.

A general manager in a fantasy world

Reality sucks. Escapism is the new religion.
Sport has always been about escape. If you
only, my son, practise hard enough, the world
will be your oyster; you’ll play a game and make
your fortune. So get your ass out of bed at 4:30
in the morning, throw that gear in the car and
let’s go to the arena.
Now we’re older, struggling through a world
with no purpose, and our dreams have become
externalized. Our fantasies of being the star, of
scoring the winning goal in game seven of the
Stanley Cup finals have grown old. Now, we are
general managers, creating our fantasy team with
nothing more to win than cold hard cash.
So I found myself at the Bombshelter. As
we sat around a long wood table under soft
lighting, the co-ordinator passed around his
stacks of papers. “Now listen, people” he said,
“It’s $10 a head, winner take all, good Canadian
fun. You all know the rules?”
No one did. The co-ordinator explained. “We
go around the table, up then down again, and
we pick our team. Four centres, eight wingers,
six defenders, two goaltenders and five bench
warmers. The team at the end with the highest
point total wins.
Points are won through eight categories.
Goalies have wins and shutouts. Players compete in goals, assists, points, plus-minus, penalty minutes and game-winning goals. In each
category your team is ranked according to its

place in that specific category. Seven points for
the highest overal goal total, one point for the
lowest. All eight categories are added together
to give your team a point total and the highest
after all 82 games wins everyone’s $10.”
I had the first pick.
The only thing I could think was Brody’s
Fantasy Fix saying a few weeks back to pick
Joe Thornton. So I did.
The second pick was JS Giguerre and I started
to think these maybe weren’t hockey minds.
After that it settled out with Heatley, Iginla,
Cheechoo, Jagr and so on until the seventh pick
when the round stopped because somebody
wasn’t there. After much debate the co-ordinator decided to assign him a team that will be
competitive. They should be European. Who the
hell wants Europeans anyways? Alfredsson was
his first assignee. Then Kari Lehtonen in net. By
the time it got back to me Scott Niedermayer
was gone so I took Eric Staal since he’s from
Thunder Bay. Then Vokoun in net.
I was like a little kid again playing with my
hockey cards. The afternoon went on. I got
Pronger and Lidstrom on D and Naslund and
Selanne on the wing. Hasek in goal and Forsberg
and Gagne from the abyss of Philadelphia.
Lecavalier, Gomez, Mark Bell, Sergei Samsonov.
Wade Redden and Mattius Ohlund, Shane Doan
and Patrick Elias. In the end we each picked
25 players. Now the season begins. 82 games
and everyday I’m to check online to see who’s
playing and substitute my bench accordingly.
Everyday I should check my stats, count my
points, consider trades and watch for injuries.
Everyday, for a half an hour, I can forget
my troubles. For I am a general manager,
and because of me, my team will win it all.
cpeters@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

reporter

Another big week in fantasy sports, so I’ve got
all three this week.
NHL - Position Pics
Goalie- Olaf Kolzig (Was)- Last 3 games: 2-0-0,
2.27 GAA, .947 SvPCT. Kolzig is a big reason the
Capitals are looking decent, he’s allowed only 7
goals on 131 shots over this span.
Defence- San Jose pumps out the young talent;
this year’s defense is no exception. Christian Ehrhoff (4 goals, 14 PIM) and Matt Carle (12 points,
+4) have proven themselves worthy of a spot in
any defence’s rotation. Ryan Whitney (Pit) is also
a great addition to any team, with 10 points and
10 PIM.
Forward- Dustin Penner (RW) Ana- 2 G, 3 A,
+ 2 in last 4 games.
Petr Sykora (RW) Edm- Looks like Sykora of
a few years ago, 7 G, 8A.
Christopher Higgins (C) Mon- 7G, 5A on the
year, grab him if he’s available.
NFL - Start ‘Em
Ahman Green (RB) GB- 224 yards, 3TDs in
last 2 games.

Damon Huard (QB) KC- Looks like the real
deal: 8 TD, 1 INT, 1475 yards, 100.4 QB rating. But this could be his last start with Green
looking healthy.
Brandon Jacobs (RB) NYG- Has been a useful
No. 2 RB lately. A touchdown in each of his last
3 games averaging 45 yards per game. He gets the
goal line touches, and against a weak Houston
team the big man should be good for a score.
NBA - Notes
- Andres Nocioni stepped his game up in last year’s
playoffs (22.3 ppg, 8.8 rpg, 1 bpg) and looks
ready for a breakout year. He’s always a threat
for a double-double.
- With TJ Ford in Toronto, Mo Williams and
Charlie Bell will compete for the starting PG job.
Williams has the clear edge, he averaged 16.9
points, 5.8 assists, and 1.33 steals in 12 starts
last season and is a good sleeper.
- Leandro Barbosa was 9 of 16 for 30 points, with
6 triples in the Suns season opener. Barbosa
will contend for the NBA’s Sixth Man award
this year.
- Detroit’s Jason Maxiell averaged 15.9 pts, 6.1 reb,
and shot 57% in 24.5 minutes per game in the
preseason. Worth keeping an eye on.

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Local club hosts mixed-curling Nationals
Steve Utz
reporter

The Westmount Golf and Country Club on
Inverness Drive is usually the home of the Waterloo Warriors varsity curling teams. But from
November 11-18, curlers from every province
and territory will descend on it to decide this
year’s mixed curling champions.
Nonetheless, there will still be a strong varsity
curling connection among the competitors.
The defending champions, and one of the
strongest squads in the competition, is the host
team from Ontario led by skip (captain) John
Epping and vice-skip Julie Reddick.
Epping, junior (under 20) provincial champion in 2004, is the former skip of the Trent
Excalibur while Reddick is a three-time junior
provincial champion (1999, 2000, 2002) and
the former skip of the Wilfrid Laurier Golden
Hawks.
Joined by Brad Kuhn, the 2000 Canadian
Junior Champion and past skip of the University of Alberta Golden Bears, the three young
curlers form an intriguing triad of curling
acumen. Yet each is quick to credit their junior

and varsity experiences in helping them reach
the next level.
“Curling [in juniors and varsity] definitely
provided me with a solid foundation for competitive mixed and women’s play,” said Reddick.
“It allowed me to know what to expect.”
And while Reddick, like all curlers can expect
the competition to be stiff once the event gets
under way, it means nothing but the best performances and shot making for the fans.
The effect of an audience, seated just inches
away from the athletes, is considerable.
“That will be one advantage that we have,”
said Epping. “I think that the support will
be really helpful as we try to keep the title in
Ontario for another year.”
Individual game tickets are still available for
students who wish to see Epping and Reddick
try to defend their title. Morning draws offer
four concurrent matches for just $2, and a full
week pass is just $75 including more than 70
round robin and playoff matches.
Event website: www.westmountgolf.com/
mcindex.htm
sutz@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

This week in brief
Women’s soccer

The Warriors were eliminated from championship contention after losing their first round
playoff match against the York Lions 1-0. The
York goal was scored by Stefani Vescio late in
the second half.

reporters

Cross-country

Women’s basketball

The Warrior’s basketball team split last weekend’s
exhibition games. On October 28 they defeated
the Roberts Weslayen College Raiders 64-62.
Gillian Maxwell, Kate Poulin and Erin Button
proved to be dominating forces inside, Maxwell
grabbing 15 rebounds. The second game of the
New York weekend saw the Warriors fall to Daemon College 74-54. The OUA season kicks of
Friday November 3 at the PAC vs. Lakehead.
Women’s volleyball

Waterloo got their first win this season with
a 3-0 sweep over Lakehead. Sue Murray had
10 kills, 14 digs, and 10 points and was named
player of the game for UW. This weekend the
Warriors are home to Ottawa at 2 p.m. on both
Saturday and Sunday at the PAC.
Field hockey

Warriors lost their OUA playoff game on October 27 to the Queen’s Golden Gaels by a score
of 2-0 at York University. The loss ended the

Tough home opener for Waterloo volleyball

Simona Cherler

York’s size proved too much for Warriors in second game of home opening weekend.
Shawn Bell
sports editor

season for Waterloo after they posted a 4-8-2
regular season record.

James Rowe
Adnam Khan

FRIDAY, november 3, 2006

The UW team competed in the OUA Championships in Kingston this past weekend. The
men, led by Wesley George’s 40th place finish,
finished 10th in the team competition. The
women came in 7th place overall, paced by
Kelly-Lynne Spettigue who came in 17th.
Badminton

On October 28, the Waterloo team traveled to
Hamilton to face McMaster and came away with
a 10-3 victory. The win moved the team to 3-1
on the season. This Saturday the Warriors travel
to York to take on the 2-2 Lions in their final
regular season game before hosting the OUA
Championships on November 18.
Women’s Hockey

The Warriors lost against Laurier on October
28, 3-1. This loss leaves the Warriors’ record at
2-2-0-1 on the season. The lone goal for Waterloo was scored by Laura Sturch. This weekend
UW hosts Guelph on Saturday, November 4,
at 7:30 p.m. at the CIF arena.

The Waterloo men’s volleyball team moved into
the confines of the PAC for a home opening
weekend October 27 and 28, however the
gym was not cozy for the young squad this
weekend, as both the Ryerson Rams and York
Lions handled the Warriors with ease.
This is a young team. With only one senior
and two third-year players, three freshmen
starters and nine other first-year players coming off the bench, how good Waterloo will be
depends greatly on how good this recruiting
class is, and how quickly cohesion comes.
“With three freshmen starters, [the results]
of opening weekend could be a reflection
on our youth,” coach Fernando Pardo said.
“Granted, these are good freshmen. One,
Duncan Crains [10], represented Canada in the
world championships of beach, and the other
two, Andrew Thorpe [6] and Stephen Hawke
[2], have played at National Championships.
So, they’ve been there, they’ve played for gold
in front of thousands.”
On October 27, the Ryerson Rams, ranked
seventh in the country, came to the PAC. The
first set was a battle. Waterloo was up 23-21
before the Rams came back to win 27-25. In
the second, Waterloo pushed the Rams to the
limit once more before losing 25-23. In the
third set the Warriors fell apart and Ryerson
won the match easily with a 25-13 third set.
Middle Blocker Aaron Dam [7] led Waterloo
with 7 kills, 1 service ace and one solo block.
Setter Thorpe racked up 19 assists in an impressive start to his career in the PAC.
“At first we were with them,” third-year
hitter Kostya Kovalenko [12] said, “we thought
we were going to win. Then we broke down
in the third set, our passing game fell apart,
we got served off the court.”
“Ryerson is the best team in the OUA right
now,” Pardo said. “they weren’t expecting what

they saw. If our passing was on, we should have
had those first two sets.”
The Warriors left that game looking like a
team with confidence. “If we play our game,”
Kovalenko said on his way to the locker room,
“we should be able to beat York.”
The next night York came to the PAC and beat
up on the Warriors. In three sets (25-20, 25-16,
25-18) the game was over, and the large crowd in
the PAC shuffled around, wondering it seemed,
could it be over this fast?
There was little to cheer about for Waterloo
fans. However, second-year outside hitter Tyler
Vivian [9] showed off his impressive vertical with
big serves and big hits. The beach-volleyball specialist Crains brought his top game, hitting seven
kills and digging seven balls in a lone bright spot
on a Warrior defence that looked too small and
too slow to block the Lions’ hitters.
After the game the dejected Warriors left the
floor with their heads down. “We didn’t come to
play tonight,” Dam said. “We didn’t play as hard
as we did [against Ryerson]. We expected to beat
York, so we’re disappointed with ourselves.”
Coach Pardo elaborated,“We didn’t come prepared tonight. At the university level you have to
be prepared for every match. We had some good
highlights, but we’re not hitting all seven cylinders.
We need everyone if we are to be successful. But
it is still early. I think you’ll see these guys come
together; we’re a competitive team.”
For the season we want to go 5 and 7 in the
first half, and our goal is the playoffs. We have a
strong work ethic, the guys are weight training at
6:00 in the morning, so they’re putting the body
in front, and they’re all doing well in school. It’s
a complete, 100 per cent improvement from
last year.”
The Warriors (1-3) will look to get back on
track, and get that crucial first home victory, on
Saturday November 4 when the Toronto Blues
visit the PAC. Game time is 4:00 p.m..
sbell@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Oleg, a third year Engineering student from Longeuil, QC won the
maximum of 3 individual events on both days plus helping the
Warrior relay team win the 4 x 100 medley relay on the Friday vs.
Queen’s and Carleton and the 4 x 100 free relay on Saturday vs.
Ottawa and Carleton. On Friday Oleg won the 200 IM in a time of
2:08.83 which surpassed the CIS qualifying standard. He then proceeded to win the 200 back and 50 breast. On Saturday against the
Ottawa and Carleton teams he won the 50 free, 100 free and 50
back. In leading off the 4 x 100 free relay Oleg improved upon his
time in the 100 free by going a lead off split of 52.90 as compared
to his individual event winning time of 53.26.

Susan, a fourth year Arts student from London, Ontario has been
an integral leader for the Warriors since the first pre-season match
this year. More specifically, she has demonstrated key offensive
and defensive contributions in this past week’s two OUA matches.
Her aggressive game play kept the Warriors in the game against
York last Wednesday and was a main contributor to the win
against Lakehead this last Saturday, as well as earning her a
Player of the Match nomination. Leading the team in kills in both
matches as well as making consistent defensive plays both in the
front row blocking and back row digging is becoming the expectation rather than the exception from this valuable veteran.